Carlos Pezoa Véliz was a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, educator and journalist

Journalist

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 from Chile

Chile

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. His literary work remained largely unpublished until his death at the young age of 29. He was posthumously recognized as a major figure in the history of Chilean poetry.
Pezoa Véliz was born in Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

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 on July 21, 1879 and was the illegitimate son of a Spanish

Spanish people

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 immigrant named Moyano and a young seamstress Elvira Jaña. Early in his infancy he was adopted by José María Pezoa and Emerecia Véliz, an elderly couple who had no children of their own.
His poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 was written within the post-modernist Latin American movement, which broke with the Symbolist and Parnassian schools of Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...

’s modernism

Modernism

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