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American literary history by the Puerto Rico Institute of Literature. In 1950 she published two volumes entitled "Trópico Amargo" and "Más allá del Poniente". As of 1959, she began to publish in the Journal of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture fragments of a fictionalized biography with the title of Memories of an islander that remains unfinished right at the beginning. As a poet Clara Lair inserts herself in the tradition of feminine writing inaugurated by Juana de Ibarbourou, Alfonsina Storni, Delmirab Agustini and Gabriela Mistral within the postmodernism of the first decades of the 20th century and cultivated shortly after in Puerto Rico by Julia de Burgos, a figure influenced largely by Lair herself. Her poetic corpus was characterized by the representation of everyday Puerto Rican scenes through the use of couplets, sonnets, and frequent Alexandrian verses. They were also recurring themes of love, feminists, existentialists, pessimists and erotic.
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Hogar Clara Lair, Inc., a non-profit organization operated from 1991 to 2016 as a shelter and relief organization for women surviving domestic violence, as well as those who do not have emotional or economic support. Since March 29th, 2000, the street in front of La
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