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Jose Maria Fonollosa
He born in spain in the city of Barcelona in a littel family. -
Childhood
he traveled with his family to a town called "Pueblo Seco" where he learned to read and write, in his early years he learned poetry from a local innkeeper. -
The school of the poet
he learned poetry at age 12, because of what he heard in the inns of his small town, because that he saw poetry as something pleasant and that is given without expecting anything in return. -
the first books
In 1945-1947 he wrote his first books which, because of his vision of "nothing in return", published them anonymously, thus leaving his work for all in a "free" way. -
The work of being a poet.
He spends years writing, leaving his works to endure, leaving very nice anthologies. for this years later he would be remembered for things like "City of Man: New York" that would be his most recognized and beloved work. -
The dead and last poem
he dies on October 7, 1990, this would cause commotions among the world of poetry, the most remarkable thing about his death was that in his hand he found a last poem where he cried out: "No to transmigration in another species.
Not to post-life, neither in heaven nor in hell.
I not absorb any divinity.
Not to a beyond, not even being paradise
reserved to Islamists, with beauties
that a book always guarantees virgins"
