Felipe Aldana

Felipe Aldana (1922–1970) was an Argentine poet.

Biography

Felipe Aldana Piazza was born in 1922 in Máximo Paz, in the south of the province of Santa Fe, in the republic of Argentina. He spent his childhood in Rosario. Because of his shyness, he lived isolated from people, as much because of his character as because of his extreme nearsightedness. This isolation would grow in the coming years because of his mental illness.

In the 1940s, he was associated with the Socialist Party, and together with Eduardo Juan, Eugenio Chort, and others, he founded in 1943 the first Puppet Theater of Rosario "Retabillo de Don Cristóbal," a name that refers to the work of Federico García Lorca.

Some poetry: Song of Flower and lyrics (Un Poco De Poesía: Cancionero de Flor y Letra). Rosario: Student Center-Free Institute of Humanities, 1949. 62 p. Poetry (Obra Poética). Introduction and notes by Eduardo Eduardo D'Anna and Elvio Gandolfo. Rosario: IEN Editions, 1977. 197 p. Contains: a little poetry, Poem Materialistic, Presence of Time and Death, The Poems of the Great River and other books unpublished until this edition. Includes iconography. As a word you could say (Como Una Palabra Que Pudiste Decir). Colophon of Eduardo D'Anna. Villa Maria, Cordoba: Editions Rhadamanthus-platelet Herrero, 1996. 6 h. Contains 3 poems of Poems of the Great River. Poetry and other texts (Obra Poética y Otros Textos). Selection, preface and notes by Osvaldo Aguirre. Rosario: Rosario Municipal Editorial, 2001. 274 p. 2a. Edition: 2006. Includes iconography and literature on the author