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Arturo Gómez Costa

(He/Him)

1896-1960

Written by Iván Brave

Translated from the Spanish by Iván Brave

Arturo Gómez Costa was born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico in 1896. His works include El alcázar de Ariel (1918), San Juan: Ciudad fantástica de América (1957), Puerto Rico heróico (1960), and Vendimias en prosa (1976). He also served as director of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico.

Works Cited

Fernández Méndez, Eugenio. Antología de la poesía puertorriqueña. Ediciones El Cemi, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968.

“Municipio de Juana Díaz.” EnciclopediaPR, 7 Sept. 2010, https://enciclopediapr.org/content/municipio-de-juana-diaz/. 

Rosa-Nieves, Cesareo. La poesía en Puerto Rico. Third edition, Editorial Edil Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1969.

Selected poems by Arturo Gómez Costa

Items with "Link to Poet: Arturo Gómez Costa"
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Canción de cuna Text
La elegía de las campanas Text
Premonition (trans.) Text
Devote Little Old Ladies (trans.) Text

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