Jose Angel Buesa

José Ángel Buesa (Cienfuegos, Cuba, September 2, 1910 – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 14, 1982) was a Cuban poet and serial writer.

He was born in Cruces and at the age of 7 he began to write his first verses. After his studies at the College of the Marist Brothers in Cienfuegos, he moved to Havana, where he joined existing literary groups. He published his first collection of poems in 1932.

He emigrated from Cuba in 1961 and, after living in the Canary Islands and El Salvador, he finally settled in Santo Domingo, where he dedicated himself to teaching, working as a professor of literature at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University. After his death, his remains were taken to Miami.

Works

His main works are:

• pagan Masses (1933)

• Babel (1936)

• End song (1936)

• Oasis, Hyacinthus, Prometheus, Don Juan's old age, Odas for victory and Daily death (all published in 1943)

• Cantos de Proteo (1944)

• Lamentations of Proteus, Songs of Adam (both 1947)

• Poems in the sand, Alegría de Proteo (both 1948)

• New oasis, Poet in love (both 1949)

• Poems prohibited (1959)

His book Oasis (1943) was reprinted more than 26 times, as was Nuevo Oasis.

Some anthologies of his poems are: Double anthology (1952) and The best poems (1960). The anthologies You will pass through my life (1997) and Nothing is late (2001) were published posthumously.