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Carlos Pellicer

かるろす・ぺりせる

Karurosu Periseru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1897-01-10 （Villahermosa）
Died
1977-02-16 （Mexico City） age 80
Nationality
Mexico
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Villahermosa → Mexico City

Career

Occupations
poet, Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Lecturer at National Autonomous University of Mexico, Senator
Active Years
1921-1977
Affiliations
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Frida Kahlo Museum, Anahuacalli Museum
Memberships
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Influenced
Octavio Paz

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Colores en el mar

1921 poetry

Early poems depicting serene and halcyon landscapes.

naturelandscapes

Piedra de sacrificios

1924 poetry

Poems often depicting serene landscapes.

naturesacrifice

Style & Themes

Literary Style
rich in depictions of naturecertain sexual energyluminous metaphor
Recurring Motifs
naturepraise of the world

Legacy

Part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets, his work filled with nature and modified Mexican poetry through new eyes.

Museums

  • Carlos Pellicer Archaeology Museum Tepoztlán, Morelos

Quotes

  • A great poet, Pellicer taught to us to see the world through different eyes, and in doing so modified Mexican poetry. His work, poetry with a plurality of sorts, is solved in a luminous metaphor, an interminable praise of the world.
    Source: Octavio Paz