Hilario Barrero


Hilario Barrero is a Spanish writer, translator, professor and poet. He also is a columnist with Fifth Column in The New York Times.

Biography

He was born in Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, in 1948, and he had 7 sibling. In 1976 Barrero published his first book: Siete sonetos. In 1978, Barrero left Spain and settled in New York City "to work on poetry". He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of New York City. He has taught Spanish at Princeton University. He is currently professor of Spanish at the University of New York City.
His poetry is a painful song of happiness. It is this a reflection on life, death and love, and austerity in ways you approach a classical poetry, very Cernuda. This author was Premio Adonáis de Poesía finalist in 1967 and won several literary prizes. Has translated into Spanish several contemporary American poets, including Robert Frost, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon. He also won the I International Poetry Prize Gastón Baquero for his work in tempore belli on 7 May 1998 and the poetry prize Muskiz lewd Café 2003 with the book The Rockefeller Center elevator.
His awards include also the Feliks Gross Endowment Award, given by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The book In Tempore Belli, winner of the first Gastón Baquero Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in magazines in the United States and Spain, and been collected in several anthologies.
Some of his poems have been translated into English by Gary Racz and published in the journal Downtown Brooklyn Long Island University. He has collaborated, among others, in the following magazines: Aldonza, Clarín, calendering, The height, Grama, Propeller, Hermes, Humerus Bone, Manx, Spanish poetry, Hourglass, Revistatlántica and Turia. Late, came to BMCC in 2003 after teaching at Princeton University.
Hilario Barrero has a personal page Public Length 7 days each month. He has a column in the New York Times since July 2006.
In 2007 he began to publish El Diario de Brooklyn. These are a succession of people, details, scenes and stills from the life of New York, especially the culture, but also a careful observation of the passage of time and weight of this, all this written in verse. The Dailies published by him are: Días de Brooklyn, in 2007, Dirección Brooklyn, Universos, 2009, and Brooklyn en blanco y negro, 2011.

Works

The books that he published are:

Books of poetry

, 2012

Magazines

He works in Clarín and he has published in Aldonza, Angélica, Arquitrave, Calandrajas,, El Súmmum, Grama, Hélice, Hermes, Hueso Húmero, Manxa, Poesía española, Reloj de arena, Revistatlántica y Turia.