Rodrigo Pesántez Rodas

Rodrigo Abelardo Pesántez Rodas (25 July 1937 – 2 April 2020) was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.

Personal life
Pesántez Rodas was born in Azogues. He died on 2 April 2020, in Guayaquil, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador.

Notable works

 * Visión y revisión de la literatura ecuatoriana (2006)
 * Panorama del ensayo en el Ecuador (2019)
 * De cuerpo entero: antología poética (2008)
 * Presencia de la mujer ecuatoriana en la poesía (1960)
 * Poesía de un tiempo (1974)