Ahuachapan, 1900 Alfredo Espino authored a work marked by oddly forms and contents, sometimes keen to easy metric, forced-up rhyme and obvious landscape description.Alfredo Espino's juvenile poems reflect a very personal moodiness. In the same breath, they lay bare the social environment close to agrarian feudalism they were written in. For him, everything was supposed to be beautiful. If nature was plentiful, then the human soul and social systems were supposed to be just fine, too. He only wrote 96 poems. Thanks to his father's enthusiasm and the support of some of his friends, he culled his poems in a small book entitled Saddened Earthenware Pots that saw the light of day in 1930. The book is divided in six parts: Casucas, Auras de Bohio, Dulcedumbre, Panoramas y Aromas, Pajaros de Leyenda, El Alma del Barrio. The book became such a great hit that soon panned out to be reading of choice of Salvadorans from all walks of life. Espino is labeled the National Poet of El Salvador, considered to be the “singer of simple things from the turf.”