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In 1957, his written work, "Poesías" was acclaimed by the
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where he worked for El Pueblo, the town's local newspaper. There he met a young lady by the name of
Natividad Suliveres and soon married her. Natividad gave birth to a baby boy, but within a year his wife died of tuberculosis. Palés Matos was devastated and expressed his grief in the poem "El
199:, the father of the "Negrismo" movement, he was also criticized by members of the black Puerto Rican community, who considered it an insult to their race that Palés Matos, a light-skinned man, was becoming famous on their account. Nevertheless, black Puerto Rican performers such as
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195:(Drumbeats of Kinkiness and Blackness). This collection of poems received an award of recognition from the Puerto Rican Institute of Literature. Palés Matos gained fame with his literary work. Though Palés Matos is considered, together with the Afro-Cuban poet
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verse of Puerto Rico. These poems were immediately and criticized by white, mainstream Puerto Rican intellectuals who viewed black issues as not being noteworthy or appropriate topics for high literature.
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who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano. He is also credited with writing the screenplay for the "Romance
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into a family of well-known poets. His mother was also a poet as was his father
Vicente Palés Anés, who has a school named after him in
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in 1979, featuring a song based on the poem. After that, Brown has written several songs based on Palés Matos poems.
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published "Pueblo negro" (Black town), the first known Afro-Antillano poem. This marked the start of a new genre in
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who are both the subject of a debate among several characters in the novel.
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pays tribute to the Afro-Antillano poems of Palés Matos and the
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Alexandra Vega Merino and Doris Sommer, Harvard
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Tuntún de pasa y grifería (Drumbeats of kinkiness and blackness)
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Falsa canción de baquiné (False Song of a funeral for a child)
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Canción festiva para ser llorada (A festival song to cry for)
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which blended words from the Afro-Caribbean culture into the
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palacio en sombras" (The palace in shadows). He moved to
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222:(1916–1999) who also wrote Afro-Antillano lyrics and
468:"Vicente Pales Anes Profile (2020-21) | Guayama, PR"
441:"About Luis Palés Matos | Academy of American Poets"
571:(in Spanish). Zonai.com. March 2001. Archived from
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125:Luis Palés Matos Bust in Guayama, Puerto Rico
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744:Sánchez-Terán, Gonzalo (November 1, 2010).
924:an analysis of Luis Palés Matos' works in
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