Published by Montevideo Imprenta Panamericana, 1960
Seller: Chaco 4ever Books, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay
Magazine / Periodical
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bueno. Folio, #1 July/August 1960 - #10 1964. Bound in full blue cloth, with the original wrappers bound in. Collaborators: Raul Zaffaroni, Circe Maia, Washington Benavides, Enrique Fierro, Walter Ortiz y Ayala, Rubén Yacovsky, Iván Kmaid, Milton Schinca, Salvador Puig, Idea Vilariño, Amanda Berenguer, Sarandy Cabrera.7 Poetas emerged in 1960 as a bimonthly poetry magazine edited by poets Nancy Bacelo, Circe Maia, and Washington Benavides. The magazine's name refers to the poets who inaugurated the first issue: Uruguayans Nancy Bacelo, Circe Maia, Washington Benavides, and Elsa Lira Gaiero; Chilean Efraín Barquero (pseudonym of Sergio Efraín Barahona); Argentine Héctor Yánover; and Paraguayan Elsa Wiezell. It published mostly Uruguayan poets, but also Latin American ones. According to historian Alejandra Torres, it is a direct predecessor of Aquí poesía. Practically an 8-page booklet, each issue was illustrated by an artist, including Raúl Medina Vidal, Carlos Carbalho, Luis Camnitzer, Alberto Testoni, Ayak Barnes, Nelson Ramos, and a single woman, Ofelia Oneto y Viana. José Pedro Costigliolo also participated in the cover and layout. The magazine, presented in two color pages, was initially distributed by subscription and later sold exclusively at the Book and Engraving Fair, in which Bacelo had participated since its inception in 1961. The print run was 300 copies. In issue 4, the frequency changed to quarterly. Issue 7 was dedicated to Uruguayan poetry. Exceptionally, issue 10 doubled the page count and included a fiction section with the story "Los amores" by Cristina Peri Rossi. It was published in twelve installments. It was printed at Imprenta Panamericana. Missing from all bibliographies. CodBos.