Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva Explained

Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962)^{[1] [2]} was a Venezuelan poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela^[3] and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets.^[4]

Biography

Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva was born in Barinitas, Venezuela into a wealthy family. She was a sister of the poet Alfredo Arvelo Larriva. Self-taught, she lived most of her life in Barinitas, working as a teacher and nurse on her family's estate.^[5]

She was a member of the Viernes Group of poets.^[6] In 1958 she was awarded the Municipal Poetry Prize for her Mandato del canto (1957).^[4]

Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva died on 10 December 1962 in Caracas, aged 76.^[7]

Works

• Voz aislada (Isolated Voice), 1930
• El cristal nervioso (The Narrow Mirror), 1931
• Poemas de una pena (Poems of Shame) 1942
• El canto del recuento (Counting Song) 1949
• Mandato del canto; poemas, 1944-1946 (Mandate to Sing), Caracas, 1957
• Poemas perseverantes (Persistent Poems), 1963

Notes and References

1. Web site: Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta. 12 October 2009 .
2. Web site: Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva.
3. Book: Roland Greene. Stephen Cushman. Clare Cavanagh . Jahan Ramazani . Paul F. Rouzer . Harris Feinsod . David Marno . Alexandra Slessarev. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 2012. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-15491-6. 1504.
4. Jorge Romero Leon, 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta', in Daniel Balderston & Mike Gonzalez, Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003, p. 40
5. Book: Cecilia Vicuña. Ernesto Livon-Grosman. The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. 2009. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-512454-5. 122.
6. 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta (1886-1963)', in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, p. 295
7. https://www.barinas.net.ve/arte-cultura/barinitas-cuna-poetas-enriqueta-arvelo-larriva-su-voz-aislada Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva su voz aislada