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Jose Carlos Becerra (Translated from the Spanish article: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Becerra)

José Carlos Becerra ( Villahermosa, Tabasco , May 21, 1936 - Brindisi , Italy , May 27 , 1970 ) was a Mexican poet.

Biography

In 1953 he won the first place in a state contest at the high school level with the text entitled "Apología de Hidalgo". From 1954 he published stories and various articles in the press of Villahermosa. In a state short story contest, held in 1956, he won third place with "El ahogado" (a theme that will reappear in two texts from different eras and in many scattered allusions). At that time he wrote the first verses we know about him and started his friendship with Pellicer.

Later he entered the National Preparatory School, and later in the National School of Architecture, of the UNAM.

After the repression of the railroad movement headed by Demetrio Vallejo, in March 1959 , Becerra wrote a civil poem: "We are going to make sugar with glasses", which is collected by Marco Antonio Acosta in his Anthology of Tabasco poets.

The year of 1964 was decisive for Becerra because his mother died, to whose memory he dedicated "Dark Word" published by Juan José Arreola in 1965. He began to write "Relation of the facts", and his texts appeared in the magazines El Corno Emplumado, Cuadernos de Bellas Artes , Cuadernos del Viento , Diálogos , Pájaro cascabel , Revista Mexicana de Literatura , Revista de la Universidad de México and in the supplements : Culture in Mexico and El Gallo Illustrated.

In 2016 a book of his essential poetry is published for the first time in Spain under the title 'The islands and other poems', Huerga and Fierro editores. Prologue, selection of César Antonio Molina.

Early Recognition

After winning in 1966 poetry prizes in Villahermosa and Aguascalientes, in 1967 he published "Relacion de los hechos" and participated in the collective volume Poesía joven de México and was among the scholars of the Mexican Writers Center.

He was an editor in an advertising agency when in 1968 the Tlatelolco massacre took place. It was one of the first poets to protest against crime: "El espejo de piedra" appeared in La Cultura in Mexico on November 6.

Residence in Europe

When he was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation scholarship, at the end of September 1969 he left for New York and from there to Europe. He settled down for six months in London, where he was able to satisfy his narrative vocation by writing "Photography next to a tulip" and continued working on what he considered a new book of poems and they were really three well-differentiated books: La Venta, Fiestas de invierno and How to delay the appearance of ants.

During this period, he held a brief and short-lived love affair with the then student Silvia Molina, who in 1977 wrote a novel in which he describes and fictionalizes his love: The morning must go gray.

In March of 1970, after breaking with Molina, and in the company of another young woman, Becerra began his trip across the continent. He went through Germany, France , toured Spain and in Madrid he met with Vicente Aleixandre. His project was to reach Greece and return to England, as the University of Essex had appointed him a visiting professor.

Death

On the morning of May 29, a cable published on the third page of the newspaper Excelsior surprised Becerra's friends with his bare brutality, but he made some believe that it could be someone else, because the note mentioned that "El Mexican architect Carlos Becerra Ramos died in a road accident, in the vicinity of San Vito de los Normandos, he was 34 years old (sic). "

In the afternoon the news was confirmed: the architect Carlos Becerra Ramos was certainly the poet José Carlos Becerra. It was also known that his death occurred on Wednesday 27 and not on Thursday 28 as reported by the ANSA cable. However, had it not been for the publication of this laconic office, the consul of Mexico in Naples would have buried the body in the mass grave of Brindisi and topped off at public auction Becerra's belongings, including the manuscripts of his three unpublished books.

On the night of June 4, 1970, his coffin arrived in Mexico. The next day, José Carlos Becerra was buried in Villahermosa, Tabasco. He died at 34 years and 6 days.

His complete poetic work was edited in the volume The autumn travels the islands in 1973, with a prologue by Octavio Paz. [ citation needed ]

In 1996, Álvaro Ruiz Abreu published La Ceiba en Llamas , definitive biography about Becerra. [ citation needed ]