The Gaucho Martin Fierro
(June 1974)
Jose Hernandez - Author Frank G. Carrino - Editor Alberto Carlos - Editor Catherine E. Ward - Translator
This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampas--a protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and the Argentine political establishment.
This poem, composed and first published more than a century ago, could have been written today by spokesmen for other oppressed...(Read More)
Martin Fierro
(June 1967)
Jose Hernandez - Author Frank G. Carrino - Editor Alberto Carlos - Editor Catherine E. Ward - Translator
“The two poems which, together, are popularly known as the Martín Fierro form what is often regarded as the greatest single Spanish American work in creative literature. Appropriately, it draws from Spain the language and verse forms which have long been the vehicle of improvisation, the didactic folk wisdom of old Spanish proverbs, the Spanish interest in law whether formally codified in the fueros and the Siete P...(Read More)
