Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Luis Cardoza y Aragon (Antigua, Guatemala, 1904) resided in Mexico for the majority of his life where he became famous and deeply influential as a poet, essayist, and art critic. Starting with his first collection of poetry, LUNA PARK (1924), and with later collections, such as Maelstrom (1926) and Quinta Estacion (1930), the poet created a body of work that was uniquely his, yet also profoundly in touch with experimental poetry, Surrealism, and tendencies that prefigured the Neo-Baroque in...See more

Luis Cardoza y Aragon (Antigua, Guatemala, 1904) resided in Mexico for the majority of his life where he became famous and deeply influential as a poet, essayist, and art critic. Starting with his first collection of poetry, LUNA PARK (1924), and with later collections, such as Maelstrom (1926) and Quinta Estacion (1930), the poet created a body of work that was uniquely his, yet also profoundly in touch with experimental poetry, Surrealism, and tendencies that prefigured the Neo-Baroque in Latin American verse. Cardoza y Aragon also published important books on politics and history, such as Guatemala, las lineas de su mano (1955), and a groundbreaking volume on Mexican painters entitled Pintura contemporanea de Mexico (1974). In 1979, the Mexican nation awarded him with the Orden del Aguila Azteca in recognition for his literary work completed while living in Mexico. Cardoza y Aragon died in Mexico City in 1992. See less