Robert Lima (poet)

Robert Lima (born 1935) is a Cuban-born American poet, literary critic, bibliographer, playwright, editor, biographer, and translator.

In 2017, he was received into the Imperial Hispanic Order of Charles V, at the Alcazar Palace in Segovia, Spain as Knight Commander Gran Placa, at the hands of the Prince of Borbon.

[2] Up to mid-2018, he has published 36 books, over 150 articles in a variety of fields, including on the works of Lorca, Valle-Inclán, Borges, Afro-American religions and facets of esoterica in world drama.

In the 1960s he read poetry in many Greenwich Village venues, co-editing the anthology Seventh Street: Poems from 'Les Deux Megots' (1961) and the second Judson Review.

From March through August 2004, Pennsylvania State University libraries exhibited The Poetic World of Robert Lima, a retrospective of his poetry career from 1955 to the then present.