Background

Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez was born on March 25, 1926, in Tuxla Gutierrez, Chiapas. His father, Julio Sabines, was a Lebanese, who emigrated to Cuba with his family, and then settled in Mexico in 1914, where he participated in the revolution. On the other hand, his mother, Luz Gutierrez Moguel, belongs to the family of Mexican soldiers. Responsible for instilling a love for letters and literature in Jaime was his father.

Education

Jaime Sabines grew up in rural Mexico and initially studied medicine to please his father. He attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Career

At first, Sabines wanted to become a doctor, so he moved to Mexico City in 1945 to begin his studies at the National School of Medicine. During his studies, he began to realize that he was not born for this profession. Soon after, he decided to start his career as a writer. But life in the capital was very expensive, so he had to return to Chiapas to work at the El Modelo cloth shop owned by his brother Juan. Sabines took advantage of this season to save money, and also began his first works: Tarumba, the famous poemario.

Subsequently, he was a special research fellow at the Center for Mexican Writers, although he did not finish his studies. At the time, Sabines was completely devoted to literature. Initially, his work did not cause any reaction, even in many cases they were criticized negatively. But this was not an obstacle for the Sabinean, he continued to work on his letter.

Jaime Sabines also repeatedly participated in national political life. For example, in 1976, he was elected federal deputy from the state of Chiapas, his home state, and held this position until 1979. The same post occupied him in another district of the federal capital several years later.

Sabines was difficult to combine the two areas of his life: politics and literature. Surprisingly, the author's work reveals pessimism and distrustful lifestyle, imbued with the tragic concept of love and passed through the sufferings of loneliness. His poetry remained outside of the activity and literary tendencies, the question was that due to his political dedication, far from the literary environment, Sabinez could not visit literary circles and made no effort to do so.

In 1950, he managed to publish his first volume of poetry "Choral", a work that stood out for its deep sincerity, this is a model of work between skepticism and expressionism, and whose literary transmission is achieved through even formal balance. It was very doubtful and created a controversial environment, rejecting a penchant for magic poetry.

The success and popularity of his poems were such that in 1965 he received an offer from the record company Voz Viva in Mexico, where he was asked to record an album with some poems by Sabines in his own voice. Sabines showed changes in his work, although he did not leave his gloomy touch, he sang in love in Mal Tiempo (1972), a work in which he demonstrated a more active and magnificent way based on the manifestation of passivity; the path that leads him to discover that “the unusual is found in life.

His style does not reject tradition or vulgarity. One of the most outstanding poems: “Something about the death of Major Sabines” (1973), a narrative type poem in which his father is the main character of the world and life. This poem was written in honor of his late father. Then came the New Recount of Poems (1977), another anthological volume in which previous materials were collected, and Poemas sueltos (1983). All these texts were collected in the 1987 New Count edition. The popularity of his works gave them the opportunity to translate into the most common languages.

Achievements

• Sabines was a leading, highly recognized Mexican poet whose poems of love and death struck a chord among his countryman. Sabines's work was the object of several confessions and awards, such as literature provided by the government of Chiapas (1959), Xavier Villaurrutia, established in honor of the great Mexican writer (1972) and Elias Surasky de 1982. Also in 1983, he received the National Letter Award.

Works

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  • Recuento de poemas 2013
  • Poesia amorosa 2012
  • A Jar of Moon Air 2017
  • Los amorosos 2010
  • Yuria 2014
  • Antología poética 2011
  • Horal. La senal 2012
  • Poesia amorosa 1999
  • Uno Es El Poeta: Antología 2001

Views

The Sabines style was classified as colloquial, never inserted in any stream, always direct and transparent, and although he did not dare to neglect the exquisiteness of cultural poetry. His use of everyday language and without ornaments to create compositions that are closer to the senses than to the mind, won the favor of the general public. This poet with perplexity and with all severity reflects on the phenomenon of love and the absurdity of death. He was a lonely and hopeless creator.

Connections

Sabines married Josephine "Chepita" Rodriguez Zebadua. They had four children - Julio, Juliet, Judith and Jasmine.

Father:

Julio Sabines

Mother:

Luz Gutierrez Moguel

Wife:

Josephine "Chepita" Rodriguez Zebadua

Son:

Julio Sabines

Daughter:

Juliet Sabines

Daughter:

Judith Sabines

Daughter:

Jasmine Sabines

References

• Jaime Sabines: Algo sobre su vida
• El universo poético de Jaime Sabines