. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "9849"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "11774726"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega (born June 18, 1948) is a Puerto Rican poet. Vega was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico to Jos\u00E9 Vega Serrano and Aida Esther Col\u00F3n Rivera. He studied in Santurce public schools, graduating from Central High School in 1964. That year he entered the University of Puerto Rico, where he completed undergraduate studies in social sciences. He subsequently began studies in philosophy, then left them to pursue a specialization in Hispanic studies. He completed a master's degree in art in 1975, with a thesis on the poetry of C\u00E9sar Vallejo. In 1982, he completed a Ph.D. with the dissertation La poes\u00EDa de Oliverio Girondo: Vanguardia y tradici\u00F3n."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega (born June 18, 1948) is a Puerto Rican poet. Vega was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico to Jos\u00E9 Vega Serrano and Aida Esther Col\u00F3n Rivera. He studied in Santurce public schools, graduating from Central High School in 1964. That year he entered the University of Puerto Rico, where he completed undergraduate studies in social sciences. He subsequently began studies in philosophy, then left them to pursue a specialization in Hispanic studies. He completed a master's degree in art in 1975, with a thesis on the poetry of C\u00E9sar Vallejo. In 1982, he completed a Ph.D. with the dissertation La poes\u00EDa de Oliverio Girondo: Vanguardia y tradici\u00F3n. Collections of Vega's poetry include: \n* Comienzo del canto (1969) \n* Signos vitales (1974) \n* Las natas de los p\u00E1rpados (1976) \n* La naranja entera (1983) \n* Tiempo de bolero (1985) \n* Bajo los effectos de la poes\u00EDa (1986) \n* Solo de pasi\u00F3n/Teor\u00EDa del sue\u00F1o (1996) In 2002, the Spanish publishing house Visor published an anthology of Vega's poetry entitled Letra viva. His book of poems, S\u00EDnsoras (2013) was published in Mexico by Seix Barral. Madrid's Estampa Gallery published Botella al mar (2013), an artist's book illustrated by Oscar Lagunas. In 2014, Vega published El arpa olvidada: Gu\u00EDa para la lectura de la poes\u00EDa (Pre-Textos, Spain), an essay on poetry that can be considered Vega's poetic creed. In 2016, the same Valencian publisher released M\u00FAsica de fondo, Vega's most recent collection. In the prologue to Letra viva, Julio Ortega considers Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega as the best poet in his country, the privileged product of the great poetic tradition that has made that island a term of the sums of Spain and America, between classical forms and worldly eloquence. The poetry of Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian. He is also author of the collection of essays and poems, Techo a dos aguas (Plaza Mayor, 1998), and of several literary studies among them C\u00E9sar Vallejo in Trilce (1983), La visi\u00F3n tr\u00E1gica en la poes\u00EDa de Pablo Neruda, essay that forms part of The Commemorative Edition of the work of the Chilean poet published by the Real Academia Espa\u00F1ola (Royal Spanish Academy) and the Asociaci\u00F3n de Academias de la Lengua Espa\u00F1ola (2010) (Association of Academies of the Spanish Language) and Coloquio de los centauros: Po\u00E9tica the Rub\u00E9n Dar\u00EDo, in Rub\u00E9n Dar\u00EDo: del s\u00EDmbolo a la realidad, which also is part of another Commemorative Edition of the Real Academia Espa\u00F1ola (2016). For his cultural achievements, Vega has been distinguished with the Order of Isabel the Catholic (Grade of Commander), with the Medal of the Foundation Ricardo Alegr\u00EDa and with the Order to the Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral (Grade of Commander). He is a corresponding academic of the Real Academia Espa\u00F1ola and the academies of the Spanish language of the United States, Dominican Republic and Bolivia. Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega's poems have been included in important anthologies of poetry in Spanish, among others Los 100 grandes poemas de Espa\u00F1a y Am\u00E9rica, compiled by Julio Ortega and published by the publisher Siglo XXI. His poetry has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian. On the poetry of Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega two books have been published: Tiempo de poes\u00EDa: La palabra de Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega, by Mar\u00EDa Teresa Bertelloni and La experiencia cu\u00E1ntica en la poes\u00EDa de Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega, by Bruno Rosario Candelier. Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega is the current director of the Academia Puertorrique\u00F1a de la Lengua Espa\u00F1ola (Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language), he has been a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, director of the Department of Hispanic Studies, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture."@en . . "1033465639"^^ . . . . . . . . . "Jos\u00E9 Luis Vega"@en . . . . . . . . .