Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo
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Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo (Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife, Canary Islands, August 20, 1905 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, August 6, 1969) was a Spanish poet and participated in the Generación del 27.
His father Emeterio Gutiérrez López, a director of the periodical La Comarca and it which Gutiérrez Albelo published its first poems. He studied baccalaureate and magister in La Laguna and made the profession during his entire life in different parts of the island; His first work, titled La Fuente de Juvencio (1925). In Vilaflor in the south of the island, he made a master in an elementary school, writing his first published book. Campanario de la Primavera (1930). He made two more worlks including Romanticismo y cuenta nueva (1933) and Enigma del invitado (1936, edited for the tinerfeña review, the Gaceta de Arte. Made up of two large exponents of poetic surrealism in Tenerife.
During the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he went to Gaceta de Arte and with the activity of the surrealist group of the island. In August 15, 1936, he went to the house of Donatila Airenza Fumero. He also edited two other books completed in the relation and the public life: Los blancos pies en tierra (1951), collection of sonnets and he received the Canarian award of poems known as "Tomás Morales" of the Asociación de la Prensa de Las Palmas and Geocanción de España (1964), a descriptive poem in the unamunous style.
Other works that he published includes:
- Antología poética, lit. Poetic Anthology (1969)
- Poesía última (1970)
- El rincón de la amistad (1971)
- Tenerife y el mar, lit. Tenerife and the Sea (1973)
- Las alas del tiempo (1974).
His influence on painting and music in the work of Gutiérrez Albelo were notable. He was also the founder and director of the review Gánigo from 1953 until his death.
