Biografía:
San Pedro de Macoris, 1913 He turned to poetry since an early age to convey his social concerns. This drove him to exile in Cuba in 1947 to flee Trujillo's dictatorship. From Cuba he traveled to Mexico, Guatemala, Astoria, Prague, Moscow and the United States. In 1949, he published his most acclaimed book in Havana. There's A Country In The World is a collection of poems whereby he denounces his people's suffering.After Trujillo's murder in 1961, Mir returned to the Dominican Republic to go into politics as the leader of the People's Socialist Party and to teach at the Santo Domingo Autonomous University. In 1982, he was labeled the National Poet. In 1993, he won the National Literature Award and the National History Award in 1995with his work The Dominican Roots Of The Monroe Doctrine.Mir also authored Counter Chant To Walt Whitman, Butterfly Amen and Poems Of Good Love. Among his essays The Great Fire, Openness To Esthetics and Three Color Legends can be counted.Pedro Mir is recognized as the Dominican National Poet and one of the greatest in his country all through the 20th century.
