Enrique Geenzier

Career

Geenzier ran the literary magazine Esto y Aquello. He served as a diplomat in Costa Rica, New York, and Venezuela. He also was Secretary of External Relations and the governor of Colon.

Demetrio Korsi wrote of Geenzier in his Antología de Panamá: "In his moments of true inspiration, he is simply exquisite."

Crepúsculos y sombras (1916)

Louisiana tristeza del vals (1921)

Corazón adentro (poems from 1916-1925)

Poesías (1933)

Sangre (1936)

Viejo y Nuevo (1943).

Achievements

• In 1916, he won the Natural Flower (Flor Natural) prize at the Floral Games.

Views

Though some romanticism is apparent in Geenzier"s poetry, its predominant impulse is modernism. Its sentimentality is often somewhat ironic.