Heberto Padilla: Quick Facts

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Born	January 20, 1932 • Cuba
Died	September 25, 2000 (aged 68)
Notable Works	“Fuera del juego”

Miguel Barnet

Cuban writer

José Martí

Cuban patriot

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Nicolás Guillén

Cuban poet

Roberto Fernández Retamar

Cuban author and critic

Virgilio Piñera

Cuban writer

Reinaldo Arenas

Cuban writer

Cintio Vitier

Cuban writer

Julián del Casal

Cuban poet

Sandra Cisneros

American author

Andrey Bely

Russian poet

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Chespirito

Mexican actor and writer

Álvaro Mutis

Colombian author

Jessamyn West

American writer

Dom Moraes

Indian writer

Kamala Das

Indian author

Patrick Anderson

Canadian poet

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

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