Evaristo Ribera Chevremont

• Name — Evaristo Ribera Chevremont • Birth Name — Evaristo Ribera Chevremont • Born — February 16, 1890 • Birthplace — San Juan, Puerto Rico • Died — March 1st, 1976 • Place of death — San Juan, Puerto Rico • Occupation — Poet • Movement — Modernismo

Ribera Chevremont is considered to be one of the great poets of the Antilles and mid-twentieth century critics such as Federico de Onís and Concha Meléndez even considered him one of the most important poets of the Spanish language. Ribera Chevremont traveled to Spain several times and established friendly ties with some writers' circles. He was much admired for his prolific poetic gift, and several of his works were published in that country, as well as in Puerto Rico. He mastered several modern poetic techniques, such as Hispanoamerican Modernism, European Ultraism and Suprarealism. He wrote in free verse as well as in traditional forms, specifically, sonnets, which he mastered fully, as seen in Sonetos del Mar, del Amor, de la Soledad, de la Muerte, de Dios, among others. His last book to reach the public, Sonetos a Galicia, a book dedicated to the land of his father, was published posthumously in 1994 by the poet's widow, María Luisa Méndez de Chevremont and his daughter Iris Ribera-Chevremont Méndez, through the Xunta de Galicia in Spain. Ribera Chevremont published his first volume of verse, Desfile Romántico, in 1914. In 1974, the poet published El Caos de los Sueños, a book of poems in free verse of a profound, lyrical and universal nature. In 1980, the University of Puerto Rico Press published a complete anthology of his poems in two large volumes, Evaristo Ribera Chevremont: Obra poetica Vol I & II. Besides that comprehensive collection, several poetry books have been posthumously published, such as Jinetes de la inmortalidad, El Libro de las Apologías, and Sonetos a Galicia.