Marco Tello reviews 2 centuries of poetry under a critical gaze

Marco Tello always had an old aspiration: to carry out a study on poetry from Cuenca. However, his various occupations made him postpone the desire to investigate until the pandemic hit. 

Locked up and with a little more time, the doctor of philology and teacher began with the investigation that would end with the work ¨Cuenca: two centuries of poetry¨, a work structured with seven chapters that address everything from colonial verses to poets born between 1954 and 1983. 

Readers will find a detailed investigation by Tello, who reviewed dozens of documents and studies in libraries to establish the structure of his book, which was published by the Directorate of Culture of the Municipality of Cuenca with the support of the University of Azuay.  

¨I found the main characters who cultivated the lyric and what I did is bring them together through the system provided by José Juan Arrom. In an orderly manner, I begged them to occupy their position that history had designated for them¨, detailed Marco Tello.

In the search and structuring of the work, he found around 150 poets whom he placed in different generations: rococo, encyclopedists, precursors of independence, neoclassicists, romantics, initiators of modernism, modernists and postmodernists, avant-garde, renovators and the generation from 1984.  

Tello's work was already presented in the city, within the framework of Cuenca's 201 years of independence, and now it will be presented in Quito, at the Book Fair tomorrow at 16:00 p.m., in the Plaza Grande.