Juan Beroes: Strong poetry that expresses deep feelings about man and his reality (+birth)

On September 24, 1914, in San Cristóbal, Táchira state, Juan Beroes, a prominent poet, journalist and diplomat, was born.

Beroes represented Venezuela in the Third Biannual International Poetry Competition in Knokke, Belgium, in 1947, he won the Municipal Poetry Prize for his work Earthly Prison; in 1948, he won the literary prize of the magazine Contrapunto and in 1957 he received the National Prize for Literature of Venezuela for his work Materia de Eternity.

For Ramón Medina, Beroes was “the poet who entered the field of national literary creation with a firm and decisive step with 12 sonnets and Clamor de Sangre, books that came to define precisely the choral environment of his poetry, (...). But there is another Juan Beroes of greater resonance and transcendence, inextricably linked to the profound movements of the spirit of man who is confronted with tremendous powers of the reality of the world and of existence. (...). More than a lyrical style, in Beroes we must listen to and define the root meaning of his human search through the expression of verse”, he said.

Other of his works are: Book of Sonnets” (1946) “Songs for April by a Maiden and Text of Invocations” (1948), “Altarpiece of the Annunciation” (1953), “Italic Poems” (1956), “Poetry 1934-1964" (1964), “The Uninhabited Paradises” (1967), “Poetic Anthology” (1974) and “Clamor de la Faena del Toro Enamorado” (1977).

Juan Beroes died on August 3, 1975.

Mazo News Team