Poetry
Bello tono menor
Not translated into English
Azarías H. Pallais · 1928
Synopsis
In “Enterrement de pauvre”, the poet asks for a pauper's funeral: few people behind him, and above all not those who mocked him in his lifetime, an early morning mass sung in Gregorian chant by a single cantor in a modest church, and nowhere the pompous eulogy that the newspaper would not fail to weave for him, noble, generous, upright citizen. Around this poem are religious pieces nourished by the Scriptures and the books of hours, where prayer is spoken in simple words.
Context
The collection was published in León in 1928, by the Talleres gráficos Robelo, like the three books of poems that had preceded it, also published in the author's native city. He had just left the Instituto Nacional de Occidente, where he had taught since his return from Europe. The years that followed were hard, as he had fallen out with President Moncada; from then on he gave his texts to the newspapers, under the name of glosses, rather than in volume form.
Who it is for
Poems in Spanish, not translated into French, almost all in alexandrines, in a language nourished by the liturgy and the Bible.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as its author's principal work, it was read outside Nicaragua, and the Nicaraguan Academy admitted him the following year.
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