Claudio Rodríguez Biography

Born in Zamora on January 30, 1934, Claudio Rodríguez is one of the most attractive and original Spanish poets of the mid-twentieth-century generation. His first book, Gift of Inebriation, written in 1953, (“poetry – adolescence – as a gift; and inebriation as a state of enthusiasm, in the platonic sense; a state of inspiration, rapture, ecstasy or, in Christian terminology, fervour”), charted the course that his own poems and those of his generation were later to pursue.

Claudio Rodríguez Popular Poems
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