Two English-language collections of this writer's work are Inside the Monster and Our America.
Two English-language collections of this writer's work are Inside the Monster and Our America. A sometime writer for the Buenos-Aires newspaper La Nacion, this man's other writings include essays on Emerson and Whitman, and he was exiled by Antonio Guzman Blanco from Venezuela for the political stance of his journal, The Venezuelan Review. In one of his most famous poems, this man writes that he will cultivate a white rose for both his friends and his enemies, while another of his poems from his Versos Sencillos was put to music as the song "Guantanamera." Best known for his collection of poetry Versos Libres, for ten points, identify this poet, who was killed in the battle of Dos Rios in 1895, fighting for the independence of his home country, Cuba.
Two English-language collections of this writer's work are Inside the Monster and Our America.
Jose Julian {Marti} y Perez