![]() ![]() ![]() These poems were published in the literary magazines "Páginas Selectas", "Variedades", "Letras y Números", "Cosmos", and "Ilustración". Lara's early poems include "Al Potro", "Vieja Despedida", and "Mamá-Jijí" (a character in his novel Las Cruces Sobre el Agua), among others. ![]() He started writing poems at about 10 years old, when he found out of the suicide death of Medardo Ángel Silva (1898-1919). He spoke French, German, Italian, and Russian almost perfectly. He never attended school and was completely self-taught. He participated in street battles and blockades, with the help of a friend who carried him on his shoulders and acted as his legs. Besides being a journalist, his father also wrote poems, which his wife Emma published after his death in a book called Mis Recuerdos (1912), which contained two poems dedicated to his son Joaquín Gallegos Lara: "A mi primogenito" and "El primer diente".ĭespite being crippled, Lara fought as a militant communist and intellectual in Ecuador. Joaquín Gallegos Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1909, the son of Emma Lara Calderon and Joaquín Gallegos Del Campo (1873-1910) who founded a newspaper called "El Caustico" in 1895, which was satirical in nature and pro-Eloy Alfaro. ![]()
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