Jose Hierro Poems

José Hierro del Real. (Madrid, April 3, 1922-December 21, 2002). Spanish poet, art critic and academic at the Royal Academy of Language. His family moved to Santander when he was a child and there he studied as an industrial expert, which he had to interrupt in 1936. His first poem, Una bala le ha matado, was published in 1937. At the end of the Civil War he was arrested and prosecuted. He remained in prison until 1944 and there he began to take a systematic interest in literature, with various events he experienced during the war already appearing in his first writings. When he leaves prison he moves to Valencia, where he dedicates himself to writing, collaborates on a mythological dictionary and, together with José Luis Hidalgo, participates in the founding of the magazine Corcel. In 1944 he made the first pictorial criticism of the work of Modesto Ciruelos. During the 40s he returned to Santander and, in addition to working in different jobs, he collaborated in the Chamber of Commerce magazine, where he wrote about economics and about the illustrious men of Cantabrian industry. In 1946 he joined the innovative group "Proel", editor of the poetic magazine of the same name in which he published his first book of poems, Tierra sin nosotros, in 1947. In 1950 he wrote With the stones, with the wind and in 1953 Antología poética appeared, a wide selection of his lyrical work. During that time he settled in Madrid, where he began to work at Radio Nacional de España, in addition to criticizing art and collaborating in magazines and newspapers. In 1955 Estatuas recumbent was published and in 1962 the volume Complete Poems was published. During the following decades he continued to create poetry, participated in literary activities, carried out art criticism analyzing the work of artists in the field of painting and sculpture, and was part of numerous literary juries. He gives a large number of lectures on poetry and art in most European capitals and his poems appear in the most prominent anthologies of contemporary poetry. National Literature Award, in 1990, the year in which Agenda was published. In 1998 he published Cuaderno de Nueva York and received the Cervantes Prize. Named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Turin, in 2002. He died at the end of that same year. José Hierro is considered one of the most representative voices of postwar social poetry. <!-- Default Statcounter code for https://www.zazzle.co.uk/mbr/238 http://aracelident.com --> <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=12098388; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_security="578f2581"; var sc_https=1; var scJsHost = "https://"; document.write("<sc"+"ript type='text/javascript' src='" + scJsHost+ "statcounter.com/counter/counter.js'></"+"script>"); </script> <noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="Web Analytics" href="https://statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img