Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry. His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery. Wikipedia
Two of Mir's great contemporaries, Pablo Neruda in his Canto General (1950) and Nicols Guilln in West Indies Ltd. www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/franco.html
...From Pedro Mir's Countersong to Walt Whitman ( Song of Ourselves ) Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Cohen "Su traduccin me ha fascinado. Sin ser literal, ... www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/mir.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Pedro Mir. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Mir
"Pedro Mir was, without a doubt, the vital voice of Dominican poetry of the 20th century and a universal poet: meditative, purifying," and able to surprise readers with his use of language, said Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo, director of the Center for Literary archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-00/07-12-00/a08wn050...
New York Times, July 14, 2000 Pedro Mir , Whose Poems Spoke to Latin Workers, Dies at 87 By ERIC PACE Pedro Mir , the poet laureate of the Dominican Republic, who gave voice to the emotions of multitudes of working-class Latin Americans, died on Tuesday i archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2000w28/msg00126.htm
