He is considered a cornerstone of journalism and theatrical criticism, as well as an innovator of Mexican comedy theater in the 1950s, and a promoter of dramatic arts and national culture.
[1] His father, Rafael Solana Cinta, was a journalist, one of the founders of El Universal newspaper who, as a reporter, traveled with Venustiano Carranza's troops across the state of Veracruz.
By 1936, he founded and published the magazine Taller poético, an individual project soon joined by Efraín Huerta, José Revueltas, and Alberto Quintero Álvarez.
The magazine had wide circulation and published the most prominent Mexican writers of the era, as well as many intellectuals exiled due to the Spanish Civil War.
[2] Solana wrote seven books of poetry: Los espejos falsarios (1944), Cinco veces el mismo soneto (1948), Alas (1958), and Las estaciones (1958) and Pido la palabra (1964).