Four Unpublished Poems among Salvador Novo's Correspondence

Abstract

In this work, four poems sent to Salvador Novo by a young poet from Nayarit are presented as well as a letter that accompanied them. From this, it follows that, even without knowing the author personally, Novo had become his intellectual tutor and trusted guide. The poems have a certain literary quality, which suggests that they were preserved not only for sentimental reasons, but also for their artistic content. The presentation of these, in addition to approaching a less known facet of Novo, opens the possibility of tracing the subsequent poetic production of the young artist who sent them, but also invites us to take more advantage of the enormous material existing in archives with the private correspondence of this and other authors.