The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Guillermo V Cintrón was born in Arroyo and developed as a poet in Mayagüez. He wrote festive and satirical poetry under the pseudonym of “Bombón” in the newspapers, El Vesubio, El Brujo, El Zancudo, La Bruja, and La Revista Blanca. He also worked as a journalist Ponce, where he founded the newspaper El Día and, in San Juan, Cintrón wrote for El Cometa, El Diluvio, and El Imparcial. His publications include La bruja en el poder (1900), De todo un poco (1907), Bombones de sal (1910), and Bombas, bombitas y bombones (1935).

Works Cited

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina. Diccionario de literatura puertorriqueña. Tome 1, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1979.

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina y Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Antología general de la literatura puertorriqueña. Ediciones Partenón, Madrid, 1982.