This book’s title suggests a vocation, an attitude toward language, and oblique reflections that address human fate as much as the most tangible transformations of the poet’s country. This discreet phenomenology is hemmed in by pathos—passion and…

If there is a dominant literary genre in Venezuela, it is undoubtedly poetry. A reading of the twentieth century reveals an admirable thirst for modernity and cosmopolitanism. One of the main reasons for presenting the expansive vision offered by…