Eduardo Milán Explained

Eduardo Milán is a Uruguayan author who has written over twenty books of poetry, several collections of criticism, and two anthologies of Spanish-language poetry. He was born in Rivera, Uruguay, in 1952. His mother died when he was a year old, and when he was a teenager his father was sent to prison for being affiliated with the Tupamaro guerrilla movement.^[1]

Works

Books of Poetry

• Manto (1996)
• Alegrial (1997) (Aguascalientes National Poetry Award)^[1]
• Razón de amor y acto de fe (2001)^[1]
• Querencia, gracia y otros poemas (2003)^[1]

Collections of Essays

• Una cierta mirada (1998)^[1]
• Trata de no ser constructor de ruinas (2003)^[1]

Translations to other languages

• Estação da Fábula: poemas de Eduardo Milán. Edição bilingüe. Tradução de Claudio Daniel. São Paulo: Fundação Memorial da América Latina, 2002. 77 pp.
• Selected poems. Bilingual edition. Edited by Antonio Ochoa. Translated from Spanish by John Oliver Simon, Patrick Madden & Steven Stewart. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2012. 150 pp. http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2012/milan.html
• Selected Essays. Edited by Antonio Ochoa. Shearsman Books, 2016.

Notes and References

1. Eduardo Milan, http://amediavoz.com/milan.htm, Eduardo Milan Biography, 2011