Carlos Pellicer

An enthusiastic traveler, his work is filled with depictions of nature and a certain sexual energy that is shared with his contemporary Octavio Paz.

In August 1921, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and Xavier Guerrero, he founded the Grupo Solidario del Movimiento Obrero ("Solidarity Group of the Workers' Movement").

He lectured in modern poetry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and served as the director of the Department of Fine Arts.

Octavio Paz said of his work: "A great poet, Pellicer taught to us to see the world through different eyes, and in doing so modified Mexican poetry.

His work, poetry with a plurality of sorts, is solved in a luminous metaphor, an interminable praise of the world."

A statue of Carlos Pellicer at the Panteon Civil de Dolores cemetery in Mexico City