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Julio Marzán

Julio Marzán was born in Puerto Rico in 1946. His parents separated before his birth, and his mother, Lydia, moved to the United States four months after Marzán’s birth, and the family (Marzán had a sister) settled in the

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by Julio Marzán (b. 1946)

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Let poetry be

like an air conditioner.

On hot days like this

July 1st in the tropics,

let it remove the humidity

trapped in every room,

and let us sleep easy,

deeply and long.

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In the Western tradition, who is considered to have written the first prose poem?

Answer

Louis-Jacques-Napoléon Bertrand, who went by the pen name Aloysius Bertrand, is generally considered the author of the first prose poem. However, Charles Baudelaire is often seen as the first one to write in the new form purposefully.

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