“Jorge Carrera Andrade: (1903-1978) Ecuadorian poet and essayist. A well-traveled diplomat and anthropologist. Carrera Andrade reveals in his poetry an intense identification with his native Indian forebears. His first selected edition of verse was Registro del mundo (1940), which was followed by Lugar de origen (1945) and Edades poeticas (1958). In all his work, he employs somewhat impressionistic techniques to evoke very clear images of his native land. Along with other writers of his generation, he pioneered the adaptation of haiku to the Spanish language. An English translation of his Selected Poems (tr H.R. Hays) appeared in 1972; his complete poems in Spanish are published in Obra poetica completa.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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