Escorcia-Gravini, G. (2024). La gran miseria humana. Poemas recobrados. Editorial Uninorte
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Gabriel Escorcia Gravini (1891–1920) seemed destined for leper colonies or lazarettos, the result of the progress and public health policies implemented by Colombia’s ninth president, José Gregorio Rafael Reyes Prieto, between 1904 and 1909. This context is significant, as the poet from Soledad faced leprosy. He endured the disease in the municipality of Soledad (Atlántico), living in isolation and marked by the stigma of contagion (McCausland, 2011). Nevertheless, it is said that at night, “[…] he would leave his house dressed in white from head to toe, heading toward the cemetery” (Buelvas, 2024, p. 6). It is also said that his renowned poem was born at the foot of the graves, later set to music by Lisandro Meza in 1976 under the title Miseria humana (Human Misery).
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Buelvas, F. (2024). Prólogo. En, F. Buelvas y M. Mendoza (Comp.), La gran miseria humana. Poemas recobrados (pp. 5-13). Editorial Uninorte.
McCausland, E. (2011). Mensajes desde el azul. Cartagena de Indias. Ediciones Pluma de Mompox.
Villegas, J. (2017). “La gran miseria humana”, de Gabriel Escorcia Gravini: lectura necropoética de la Colombia de comienzos del siglo XX. Tópicos del Seminario, (38), 49-75. Recuperado de: https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S1665-12002017000200049&script=sci_arttext
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