Eduardo Lizalde

[2] Lizalde was known as "El Tigre" for recurring themes in his work which stem from his childhood fondness for the stories of Salgari and Kipling.

He also began writing early and published his first short poems in 1948, at the age of eighteen, in the magazine El Universal.

Shortly thereafter Lizalde, Enrique González Rojo, and Marco Antonio Montes de Oca started Poeticísmo, a literary movement which quickly fizzled out.

In fact, despite his continuing efforts to promote Mexican literature, Lizalde has expressed dissatisfaction with his own work and poetry in general, of which he has frequently said "no sirve para nada" (it's useless).

[citation needed] He has served as the director of the Casa del Lago at UNAM and has held several positions at the Secretariat of Public Education.