Max Rojas

Max Rojas
Max Rojas
Born	Juan Máximo Rojas Proenza; June 4, 1940; Mexico City, Mexico
Died	April 24, 2015 (aged 74); Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	poet, essayist, literary critic
Nationality	Mexican

Juan Máximo Rojas Proenza, known as Max Rojas (June 4, 1940 – April 24, 2015) was a Mexican poet, essayist, literary critic and culture manager.[1] He wrote long-winded poem Cuerpos, his last published work originally composed of three thousand pages and that could fill twenty volumes, publishing only four.[2]

He studied literary studies at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UNAM) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[3] In 1985 he published ten poems in Calandria de tolvañeras magazine, edited by Infrarrealismo movement. These poems will be part of the 1986 book Ser en la sombra. He was director of the Institute of Right of Asylum-Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky from 1994 to 1998. It was part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (National System of Art Creators) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010–2013, and participated in the Iztapalapa Council of Cultural Development and South Museums Circuit.[3]

List of works

1971: El Turno del Aullante
1986: Ser en la sombra
1997: El turno del Aullante y otros poemas
2008: Memoria de los cuerpos. Cuerpos uno.
2008: Antología de cuerpos.
2008: Sobre cuerpos y esferas. Cuerpos dos.
2008: El suicida y los péndulos. Cuerpos tres.
2008: Cuerpos uno: Memoria de los Cuerpos
2008: Cuerpos dos: Sobre Cuerpos y Esferas
2008: Cuerpos tres: El Suicida y los Péndulos
2009: Cuerpos cuatro: Prosecución de los naufragios
2011: Cuerpos
2011: Obra primera (1958–1986)
2013: Poemas inéditos

Awards

Carlos Pellicer Iberoamerican Prize in Poetry, 2009.

References

"Max Rojas". Enciclopedia de la Literatura de México. CONACULTA. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
De la O, Margena (September 20, 2009). "Max Rojas, tragado por un poema sin fin". La Jornada Guerrero. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
Vargas, Ángel. "Fallece el poeta Max Rojas a los 74 años". La Jornada (April 24, 2015). Retrieved 2 May 2015.

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[ELM-1] "Max Rojas". Enciclopedia de la Literatura de México. CONACULTA. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

[Jornada-2] De la O, Margena (September 20, 2009). "Max Rojas, tragado por un poema sin fin". La Jornada Guerrero. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

[Jornada2-3] Vargas, Ángel. "Fallece el poeta Max Rojas a los 74 años". La Jornada (April 24, 2015). Retrieved 2 May 2015.