where I keep the kiosks, street lights, pedestrians, which I enter through the pupil. I feel so full that I have fear of exploding ... I would need to leave any garbage on the sidewalk ...
When you reach a corner, my shadow away from me, and suddenly, he throws himself between the wheels of a streetcar
Oliver Girondo Poems to be read on the streetcar, 1922.
Brief biography
Argentine poet born in Buenos Aires in 1891, within a wealthy family who sought a thorough education in major European schools.
studied law, and soon, because of their contacts with poets exponents of the European vanguard, published in 1922
his first book of poems, "Twenty Poems to be read on the tram", followed later by "Stickers" in 1925,
"Scarecrow" in 1932, "Persuasion of Days" in 1942, "Our Country" in 1946 and "In the masmédula" in 1954,
work that is in his most audacious in the field of poetry.
At the beginning of the decade of the fifties, guided by his interest in the arts, dabbled in painting with a clear surrealist tendency, thanks to his thorough knowledge of French painting.
In 1961 he suffered a serious accident that decreased their physical conditions. In 1965 he traveled to Europe last time and return
to Buenos Aires, died in 1967
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