Poems of Ramon Lopez Velarde

"The essential and supreme poet of our extensive Americas."
-Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda

"López Velarde is the most admired and most carefully studied poet in Mexico . . . [He] left us a few poems . . . so perfect that it is foolish to lament those that death prevented him from writing."-Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz

"López Velarde . . . was a wonder." -Jorge Luis Borges


Millions of Mexicans know Ramón López Velarde as the author of Suave Patria, the national poem of Mexico, and a moderni...