Agonía del árbol y la sangre

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Agonía del árbol y la sangre is a poetry book by Alejandro Carrión. It was first published by the University of Loja with surrealist drawings by Eduardo Kingman. This collection explores many directions of expression and technique. The book begins with the poem censured by Enrique Anderson Imbert and provoked, thanks to his authority, Hernan Rodriguez Castelo to expel Alejandro Carrión from Parnassus.^[1]

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There were many controversies relating to the book. Some critics^[who?] did not approve of Carrión's renegade thematic direction that rejected the conventional "pesia del cartel". They accused him of plagiarizing a poem by Emile Verhaeren, which Carrión responded by publishing both poems together in the journal “Letras del Ecuador”. Two poems are noteworthy in this collection: "Canto a mi silencio" that pleased Eduardo Barrios, the great Chilean writer, and the poem "Plegaria". This is considered one of his best and was excellently translated by Dudley Fitts to English. An important poem of this book is "Ciprés para Federico García Lorca", which was eventually included a tribute to poets and painters from "Ecuador a la España Leal” and the “Ciprés para Ignacio Lasso". In the end “Canto a Eduardo Kingman” was written as prologue to the "Men of Ecuador". "Laurel de sombra" is a tribute to the great and sad poet Héctor Manuel Carrión, older brother of his father.