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(Pseudonym of Miguel Angel Osorio Benitez, Santa Rosa de Osos, 1883 – Mexico, 1942) Poet and controversial and influential Colombian journalist, whose work is usually classified within a modern eclectic. In his early youth was a simple rural school teacher in Antioch, where he founded the School of Initiation peasant. At 23 years, having moved from Antioch to Barranquilla, began publishing his first poems, including Parable of the return, Well known in Colombia. Then some friends Colombian singers, he moved to Mexico.

Thus began a life of ceaseless travel to various countries in America, always alternating task of a journalist with his vocation as a poet. Established in Monterrey, the city founded in Contemporary Magazine and was editor of the newspaper El Espectador. For their attacks on the regime of Porfirio Diaz spent six months in jail, which was taken by the revolutionaries. Later worked in Mexico’s capital with impartial and independent, and the magazine El Porvenir. De Mexico was forced to flee to publish the newspaper story entitled “The Battle of the citadel narrated by a foreigner,” which recounts the events that followed the assassination of former President Francisco Madero.

He then went to Guatemala in 1914, which left a deep mark literature. That year his friend the poet and storyteller Guatemalan Rafael Arevalo wrote his best short story, entitled The man who looked like a horse, A story refers to Barba-Jacob, and at the same time brought some notoriety to the author, marked the beginning of the forging of the legend of the Colombian poet. Guatemala also had to flee, leaving half his work published Land of Canaan.

In 1915 he traveled to Cuba for the second time (he had visited the island on his first trip to Mexico), where he composed his poems Unnamed song, September Elegy, October Lamentation, Pride and Deep song of life, Which is his most famous poem. After spending some months in New York, moved to Honduras, where he founded the daily news and ideas in a northern town, La Ceiba. In Honduras went to El Salvador on June 7, 1917, the day the earthquake that destroyed the city. Porfirio Barba Jacob wrote in honor of your brochure The earthquake in San Salvador, story of a survivor. Returned to Monterrey, founded the newspaper El Porvenir, which would become a great newspaper in northern Mexico.

In 1920 he was back in Mexico capital, shocking and sensational writing chronicles, as the series of five reports entitled Spiritualistic phenomena in the palace of the Papal. The stories were developed in the palace that had been destined for Nuncio’s residence. The government banned the entry of the papal representative, so the building remained empty and became based more in the orgies of the Colombian poet who, among other excesses and extravagances, was engaged at the time consumption of marijuana and exaltation . At this time he wrote poems like “The sound of the wind,” “Ballad of the mad joy,” “Song of Solitude” and others.

During the year 1921 directed the Public Library of Jalisco, where he was to visit the Spanish writer Ramon del Valle Inclan. He had to leave that position because of their scandals. The following year he was also expelled from Mexico because of the diatribes launched against the ruling government. He returned to Guatemala, and managed to make the newspaper The Guardian the most important of all Central America. Seeing expelled from this country and then also from El Salvador, dressed as priest and devoted himself to preaching over the banana plantations of Honduras.

In 1925 he returned a third time to Cuba, where he sympathized with the founders of the Communist Party, but a year later was leading the Lima newspaper La Prensa. Fallen out of favor with the government of Peru, after wandering long in environments of poverty, Colombia’s ambassador to the repatriated to his country. It had been 20 years since his departure. For three years he toured various towns and cities of Colombia giving recitals of his poems. He also served as editor of El Espectador in Bogota. He later traveled back to Cuba, where he met the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

Finally, in 1930 he reopened the doors of Mexico, where for several years published in the newspaper Excelsior, his column “Perifonemas” in a masterful prose, unmatched by any other contemporary American journalist. Unfortunately, your items have not been collected in one volume. Moreover, Barba Jacob himself did not much production, given that he understood his profession of journalist as a mere means of livelihood. Never bothered to publish his own verse, for he never was satisfied with his writings, but the polished continuously, but his poems appeared in the continent’s most prestigious magazines.

Even in the poet’s life, his friends published three collections: Black Roses (1932, in Guatemala) Songs and Elegies (1933, in Mexico) and Song of the profound life and other poems (1937, in Manizales). A fourth collection was published posthumously in a press official with the title Timeless Poems (1944). He died in Mexico City used marijuana, alcohol, tuberculosis and poverty.

His body of work reveals an anachronistic modernist style, full of big words, but with a rhythm excited, anxious, sincere and passionate. Influenced by Baudelaire, has more interior life that imagination and romantic temperament modernist approaches sometimes to the formal beauty of Ruben Dario, Amado Nervo’s delicacy, the strength of Santos Chocano and tragic sense of Jose Asuncion Silva in a less irregular shaking his lyrical life itself, was undoubtedly a great poet.