Víctor “El Chino” Valera Mora: Verses that revive the soul and ignite hope (+sow)

Published at: 29/04/2024 08:04 AM

On April 29, 1984, the physical departure of Víctor Valera Mora, a Venezuelan poet and writer who stood out for his prose forged with passion, strength, hope and love, which houses the soul of that people to whom he gave his work.

Born in the city of Valera, Trujillo, on September 27, 1935, “El Chino” graduated in 1961, with the degree of sociologist obtained from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), a house of studies, where among corridors and fields, he could see pencil in his hand, capturing verses and writing stories, which he converted into a modest handmade edition of his first book “Song of the Just Soldier”,

A member of the “Lautréamont Gang”, which brought together poets and lovers of letters, he toured bars and restaurants in Sabana Grande such as Halászo Macska, Nerone, El Viñedo, Il Vecchio Mulino, El Lagar and La Bajada, where he shared and discussed all aspects of life.

In 1969, Carlos Contramaestre left for the state of Mérida, where he lived and where he built his collection of poems “Amanecí de Bala”. In 1972 he appeared With One Foot in the Stirrup.

In 1979 he published “70 Stalinist Poems”, with a cover by the painter Mateo Manaure, with which he won the Poetry Prize of the National Council of Culture in 1980.

Forty years after their physical departure, the peoples sing their verses, making this giant of Hispanic letters return “singing, and more singing and more singing”.

Mazo News Team