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“... likes to settle on rafters or ceilings: a moth of ill omen. Chapolas negras is also the title of Fernando Vallejo’s essay on the Colombian poet, José Asunción Silva, who – another of those anniversaries – committed suicide a hundred years ago last year. This Chapolas negras is an extraordinary work by the most distinctive Colombian writer to ...”

“... human being: but Pablo Neruda, friend of the great – Lorca, Picasso, Eluard, Aragon, Ehrenburg, Vallejo, Cortazar – and colossus of Chilean literature, author of Residencia en la tierra and Canto General, among innumerable other works, was distinctly larger than life. From his early years as a diplomat in such outposts of the British Empire as Ceylon and ...”

“... Guillen had a truly poetic gift, though in a minor key. In fact, he is, together with Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda, the most widely translated Latin American poet of the century and has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. The musical connection is an apt one, for Guillen was a writer of pop poetry avant la lettre, the composer of soft ...”