Poemas Rescatados (1948-1968)

Mexico: UNAM, [2026?]. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo in pale green color-illus wraps; approx 150p. New in shrinkwrap. Paperback. ISBN: 9786076428955

In Spanish. Born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, in 1926; died in Mexico City, 1999. Among the most widely read Mexican poets of the late twentieth century. Three years of medicine in the capital, then philosophy and letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Some seven years minding the family clothing shop in Chiapas, with much of Tarumba written behind the fabric counters. Plainspoken, colloquial verse on love, loss, the body and death, mixing roughness, humor and tenderness, with little literary ornament. Cardinal books: Horal, Tarumba, and Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines, the elegiac sequence on his father’s death. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Maltiempo; National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, 1983); Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1994); Mazatlán Prize for Literature (1996). Also a federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI): for Chiapas, 1976–79, and for the Federal District (Distrito Federal), 1988. Villaurrutia Prize winner. | Cannot determine date of publication lest we remove shrinkwrap