Carlos Pellicer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carlos Pellicer

modernist Mexican poet

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1899

Place of Birth: Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1977

Profession: writer, poet, archaeologist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 10, 1897 – February 16, 1977), born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was active in the promotion of Mexican art and picture, literature.
An enthusiastic traveller, his work is filled with depictions of nature, and a certain sexual energy that is shared with his contemporary, Octavio Paz. The young Pellicer studied in Mexico City.
In August 1921, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and Xavier Guerrero, he founded the Grupo Solidario del Movimiento Obrero ("Solidarity Group of the Workers' Movement").
He lectured in modern poetry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and served as the director of the Department of Fine Arts.
He helped establish a number of museums, including the Frida Kahlo and Anahuacalli museums in Mexico City.
In 1976 he was elected to the Senate, representing Tabasco for the PRI. His early poems, as in Colores en el mar (Colors in the Sea, 1921) and Piedra de sacrificios (Stone of Sacrifice, 1924), often depicted serene and halcyon landscapes.
During his later period, however, Pellicer explored the historical and spiritual implications of his experience of nature.
Octavio Paz said of his work: "A great poet, Pellicer taught to us to see the world through different eyes, and in doing so modified Mexican poetry.
His work, poetry with a plurality of sorts, is solved in a luminous metaphor, an interminable praise of the world."