Carlos Martinez Rivas

Carlos Martinez Rivas

Carlos Martínez Rivas was born on October 12, 1924 in Puerto de Ocoz, Guatemala, where his parents were vacationing.[1] From an early age, Martinez Rivas showed a special talent for poetry. He won his first poetry competition at age 16 and at age 18, while still a high school student at Colegio Centro-América, a Jesuit school in Managua he wrote "El paraiso recobrado" which was published in 1944. Octavio Paz say about him:“Another young man given over to poetry; a new, true poet—and the sure promise of a great poet; and the battle against the dawn and its obscene noises; and the start of each day, defenseless against the enemy language. To start and start again. The terrible and renewed prophecy of Rimbaud: ‘Other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the other has fallen’. Carlos Martínez Rivas is one of them.” Octavio Paz in “Legítima defensa” [Legitimate defense], 1954, included in Las peras del olmo [The pears of the elm]

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