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Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos was born in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 25, 1925 to Adriana Figueroa and César Castellanos. A year after she was born, her family returned to their native village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, near

Featured Poem
Meditation at the Threshold
No, the solution is not
to jump beneath a train, like Tolstoy's Anna,
nor to swallow Madame Bovary's arsenic,
nor to wait on the barren plains of Ávila
5for the visit of the angel with the javelin
before tying the scarf around one's head
and beginning to act.
Nor to deduce the laws of geometry by counting
the rafters of the castigation cell,
Poetry Trivia
Question:
What actor, famous for playing the role of Aragorn in the film versions of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , is also a poet?
Answer
Viggo Mortensen. He is the author of three collections of poetry.
