Luis Chaves Biography
Luis Chaves (born in 1969), is a Costa Rican poet, considered one of the leading figures in contemporary Costa Rican poetry.
After studying Agronomy at the University of Costa Rica, Chaves began to work as a free-lance writer. His first collection of poems, El Anónimo, was published by Editorial Guayacán in 1996. In 1997 his second poetry collection, Los animales que imaginamos, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Poetry Award. Historias Polaroid was published in 2001 to critical and public acclaim, and it was shortlisted for the poetry prize at the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Colombia, that year.
Out-of-focus photographs
in front of equestrian monuments.
The fog of the drug,
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Picture this:
two weeks of rain
washed away all the flower pots'
ochre rings.
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A few days and nights in Malpaís and Santa Teresa. I saw the pelicans, the threat of falling coconuts, I saw coatis, whales, iguanas, herons and some fish - blue,
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At 11, as the first few guests arrive, the inaugural bottle of wine will be uncorked. (Over the course of the day, drinking's democratic arc will range anywhere from 2004's old vine varietals to box wine).
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Clothes out to dry
and those clouds.
There's a new dog
who follows me everywhere
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