Thousands Augustine Sall

AGUSTA? N THOUSANDS SALL

(1917-1989)

"I'm creating a world where man

Enjoy the freedom that does not close

See the sun without being surprised

And find love without saying his name

In any place on earth ".

Thousands Augustine Sall.

THE VOICE OF POETRY SOCIAL CANARIA

The great poet Agustín Millares Sall canary published over twenty books of poetry titles that highlight the social poetry, in his poetry written in 1965 and incorporated in the Social Poetry Anthology of Leopold Louis, says: "When they called me" social poet "-not sociable which is a form of pie-not considered to be a sambenito brand or a more or less manufactured. I was intensely proud, knowing that was not one of "the den all around me", or whatever it is, "I do a blind eye to what happens." I was, naturally, more tied to the beat of time, carried by the wind more popular it is, after all, the best way to behave. " Their struggle for peace and freedom and that's not look the other way is a constant throughout his work. Among the poets of that Social Poetry Anthology among others, the poets of postwar Garciasol, Celaya, Cremer, Otero, ANGELES Figuera, Eugenio de Nora, Iron and Augustine Thousands Sall, and the poets of the promotion of fifty, Gloria Fuertes? Angel Crespo, Carlos Sahagun, Jose? Angel Valente, Maria Beneyto, Gil de Viedma,? Angel Gonzalez, Rafael Morales, Maria Elvira Lacacia and Felix Grande.

Thousands Sall Augustine was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on June 30, 1917 and died in the same city on March 6, 1989. One grows up in a family of poets and artists, his father Juan Thousands Carlo, professor of secondary education, and his brother José María were poets, his brother Manuel, painter. Attends school at the Institute Pérez Galdós, where he studied avant-garde poet Agustín Espinosa, author of Crime, a work considered the fullest expression of Spanish surrealism. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party. When preparing to travel to Madrid to continue the studies of Philosophy and Letters, the war provoked by General Franco's military rebellion cut short his dreams. He was arrested and taken to concentration camp at La Isleta, in 1938 he was banished along with his father to Lanzarote. Later he was drafted and has to go forward. In 1941 the Company Transmediterránea, company where he stayed until his retirement. In 1947 one of the founders of The Ark collection. Shortly afterwards created with his brothers Jose Maria and Manuel Planas a new collection of poetry. In the mid-sixties, appears on a quarterly basis, the literary magazine Thousands, also linked to his family.

The Canary Islands government in 1985 granted Canary Prize for Literature.

Thousands Augustine Sall 1929 published his first poem "The ship of death" in the newspaper La Voz Workers. Among his extensive work, include the following titles: Sleep drifting (1944), in the melting of the night (1945), the blood boils I (1946), The outcry (1946), Stars and the Heart (1949), From the window to the street (1949), Spring Offensive (1949), Poem of Creation (1951), Seven Elegies at a time (1960), Talk Live (1964), new writings (1964) , unanimous Poetry (1967), secondary education (1974), outdoor function (1975), From Here (1977), Paradise of the nodes (anthology) (1979), Anden Verde (1982), Clay (1986) , More bitter far I (1987) and Metamorphosis of the star (1988). Finally, in the same year of his death, he published The term or life (1989).

And, as the voice of social poetry Canary: "The poet is the people that refuses to die / in the sudden night where all is forgotten. / No freedom where there is no poet alive. / No bird flies where the air not exist. "

Francisco Arias Solis

If you want peace, prepare to live in peace with all men.

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