The Poet of Electroshocks: On the Radioactive Mystics of Francisco Matos Paoli.
Francisco Matos Paoli (1915-2000) is probably Puerto Rico's most famous Nationalist poet. His Canto de la locura (1962) is probably his most important work. It was the last in a cycle of prison poems, written after the Puerto Rican Nationalist Insurrection in 1950. Like much of his work, Canto is a...
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