Synopses & Reviews
This is one of the finest biographies of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author, Rafael Pombo, yet written. Not only does the customary portrait of the poet emerge—lover and admirer of the night, a man inclined to dress himself as a woman—but also his rarely mentioned sides: the engineer, the nihilist, the military man, the patriot ever since his exile to the United States, and the staunch advocate of Bogotá's 19th-century culture.