Redeemers (2013)
“They were drawn by a social revolution, a nationalist constitution, an educational and cultural project that had rescued and revalued the Indian inheritance and presence in Mexico. And much of it was due to the efforts of a brilliant Mexican intellectual who had impressed the Peruvians and made many friends in Lima, during one of his periods of exile in 1916. He had now become the “Teacher of America,” and in October 1925 the admiration of young Peruvians for José Vasconcelos would be sealed in... blood.
José Santos Chocano (1875–1934) was known in Peru as the representative of modernism in poetry. He was a heavily built man with a bristling mustache and an extraordinary opinion of his own worth (“Walt Whitman has the north, I have the south”). He was known as the Bard of America (El Cantor de América) and had become a very public supporter of the militarist and antidemocratic ideas that another modernist poet, the Argentine Leopoldo Lugones, had enunciated some months earlier.MoreLess
José Santos Chocano (1875–1934) was known in Peru as the representative of modernism in poetry. He was a heavily built man with a bristling mustache and an extraordinary opinion of his own worth (“Walt Whitman has the north, I have the south”). He was known as the Bard of America (El Cantor de América) and had become a very public supporter of the militarist and antidemocratic ideas that another modernist poet, the Argentine Leopoldo Lugones, had enunciated some months earlier.MoreLess
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