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Jose Santos Chocano
Jose Santos Chocano Gastanodi was a Peruvian poet who proclaimed himself "The Singer of America, Autochthonous and Savage"" . Now neglected, largely for the bombastic tone of his poems, in the early twentieth century his fame stretched through the continent and even to Madrid and Paris. His best-known collection is the 1906 Alma America, which opened with a dedicatory poem addressed to Alfonso XIII of Spain that cast the collection as the rediscovery of Latin America through verse; elsewhere in the collection, Chocano declared himself a "Columbus of poetry" ("un Colon del verso"). In 1908 he revised and republished his ...
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