Poetry
Tierras, mares y cielos
Not translated into English
Juan Ramón Molina · 1911
Synopsis
The volume first brings together poems, then prose pieces: chronicles, articles, prose poems and a few tales, which their author had scattered through newspapers and magazines. Among the poems are the sonnet “Pesca de sirenas”, “La araña” and a salutation to the poets of Brazil; among the tales are “El Chele” and “La intrusa”, in which a dead woman stands at the centre of the story.
Context
A poet friend, a magazine editor, gathers after the author's death what the press of the isthmus had published of his work, and brings it out under this title; the sources date this first edition to 1911 or 1913. A second edition appears in 1937, then another in Guatemala in 1947, in a series of classics of the isthmus, expanded with a bibliography of the author. The prose and verse are arranged there in no chronological order.
Who it is for
In Spanish, with no French translation. Short poems in the modernist manner, then diary prose; the vocabulary, rich in rare words, demands attention.
Prizes and reception
The only book by a poet whom the Bibliothèque nationale de France regards as the leader of Honduran modernism; reissued in 1937 and in 1947.
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