[citation needed] From 1946-48, Bousoño traveled in Mexico and the United States, teaching literature at Wellesley College in Massachusetts before returning to Spain.
[4] His passion for poetry, along with his intelligence and curiosity, helped him make early inroads within the world of literary theory.
[6] Among his students of poetry who credit his teachings as influential to their careers is the Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi, author of "Yo-Yo Boing!"
He has also studied the evolution of metaphoric expression, from classical examples like "your hand is like the snow", to more complex surrealistic metaphors, for example: "swords like lips" (in reference to one Aleixandre's most famous books, Espadas como labios (Swords like lips).
[citation needed] Spanish author and critic Luis Antonio de Villena called Bousoño "one of the most outstanding poets of the postwar generations" and "an outstanding poetry theorist, upholding the most profound sense of irrationalism and surrealism, that is, that the magic of the irrational can be understood".