María Calcaño (
Maracaibo
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, motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal")
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, 1906 –
Caracas
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, 1956) was a
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n poet.
She was married at 14, and had six children before the age of 27. Her success as a poet was belated, and she preferred to talk about a subversive eroticism in her poems instead of aesthetic patterns or social topics, which were the main subjects of her contemporaries.
Quotations
*Había olvidado las muñecas / por venirme con él''
:(I had forgotten the dolls / to come along with him)
''Canciones que oyeron mis últimas muñecas'' (1956)
Books
*Alas fatales (1935)
*Canciones que oyeron mis últimas muñecas (1956)
*Entre la luna y los hombres (1961), after her death.
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Venezuelan women writers
People from Maracaibo
1906 births
1956 deaths