Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
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Mario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City
, December 25, 1953-1998). Mexican
poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement.
, Cuauhtémoc Méndez Estrada, Ramon Méndez Estrada, Bruno Montané, Rubén Medina, Juan Esteban Harrington, Oscar Altamirano
, Jose Peguero, Guadalupe Ochoa, Jose Vicente Anaya, Edgar Altamirano, Elmer Santana and Mara Larrosa. Infrarealism was a vanguard literary movement representing a rupture with the Mexican literary establishment; Santiago is considered by many to be the principal exponent and purest stylistic representative of the movement. Considered to be one of the most talented Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century, his poems are complex, erudite, and highly metaphorical. Santiago sought an aesthetic of signs, much like the calligram
s of Guillaume Apollinaire
. The majority of his work is still unpublished.
Roberto Bolaño
used Santiago as the basis for the character of Ulises Lima in his novel The Savage Detectives
. Like Santiago, the Lima character is an eccentric and adventurer, and an opponent of the traditional forms of writers who sold out for state scholarships. Santiago frequently made enemies due to his sincerity and open criticism of what he deemed inferior forms of poetry, the literary elite, and poets themselves. He has gained slight recognition, though he is recognized and lauded by the recorded oral testimonies of his "comrades-in-arms".
Mexico City
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, December 25, 1953-1998). Mexican
Mexico
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poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement.
Biography
His first reading was in 1973. In 1976 he founded the infrarrealismo (infrarealism) movement along with Roberto BolañoRoberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
, Cuauhtémoc Méndez Estrada, Ramon Méndez Estrada, Bruno Montané, Rubén Medina, Juan Esteban Harrington, Oscar Altamirano
Oscar Altamirano
Oscar Altamirano is a Argentine footballer currently playing for Ferro Carril Oeste of the Primera B Nacional in Argentina....
, Jose Peguero, Guadalupe Ochoa, Jose Vicente Anaya, Edgar Altamirano, Elmer Santana and Mara Larrosa. Infrarealism was a vanguard literary movement representing a rupture with the Mexican literary establishment; Santiago is considered by many to be the principal exponent and purest stylistic representative of the movement. Considered to be one of the most talented Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century, his poems are complex, erudite, and highly metaphorical. Santiago sought an aesthetic of signs, much like the calligram
Calligram
A calligram is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates a visual image. The image created by the words expresses visually what the word, or words, say. In a poem, it manifests visually the theme presented by the text of the poem...
s of Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
. The majority of his work is still unpublished.
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
used Santiago as the basis for the character of Ulises Lima in his novel The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives is an award-winning novel published by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in 1998. Natasha Wimmer's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007...
. Like Santiago, the Lima character is an eccentric and adventurer, and an opponent of the traditional forms of writers who sold out for state scholarships. Santiago frequently made enemies due to his sincerity and open criticism of what he deemed inferior forms of poetry, the literary elite, and poets themselves. He has gained slight recognition, though he is recognized and lauded by the recorded oral testimonies of his "comrades-in-arms".
Works
His poems were collected in Aullido de cisne, published in 1996. He died after being hit by a car on January 10, 1998 in Mexico City. This is the last poem he wrote:- EME ESE PE
- Moriré sorbiendo
- pulque de ajo
- Haciendo piruetas
- de cirquera
- en la Hija de los
- Apaches
- del buen Pifas