A poetry book by Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was born in Loja, Ecuador. A poet, novelist and enthusiastic journalist, he published two important novels, La manzana dañada and La espina, many books of short stories, and numerous poetry books...

 named La sangre sobre la tierra is an excursion into epic poetry that begins with the “Canto a la América Española”, written to participate in a continent wide poetry competition convened in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

: the poem was short listed as the “Ecuadorian” selection and lost by one vote to the great Venezuelan poet Manuel Felipe Rugeles

Manuel Felipe Rugeles

Manuel Felipe Rugeles was a poet, journalist and Venezuelan politician who was born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela in 1903 and died in Caracas in 1959. As a poet he belonged to the so-called Generation of 1918...

. “Canto a la línea equinoccial” pleased the publishers of “Poesía de América”, the Mexican poetry magazine, but caused the indignation of the poet Elio Romero, who found it ‘reactionary’. Jose Maria Egas

Jose María Egas

Jose María Egas is an Ecuadorian poet born in Manta, 1896-1982. He is considered a symbolist poet. His poetry is said to be very musical and is popular with the common man...

 expressed his enthusiasm for the agonic sacrifices of “Túmulo de Vargas Torres”.