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Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

From acclaimed author Margarita Engle comes a gorgeous novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary movement of Modernismo.
As a little boy, Rubén Darío loved to listen to his great uncle, a man who told tall tales in a booming, larger-than-life voice. Rubén quickly learned the magic of storytelling, and discovered the rapture and beauty of verse.
A restless and romantic soul, Rubén traveled across Central and South America seeking adventure and connection. As he discovered new places and new loves, he wrote poems to express his wild storm of feelings. But the traditional forms felt too restrictive. He began to improvise his own poetic forms so he could capture the entire world in his words. At the age of twenty-one, he published his first book Azul, which heralded a vibrant new literary movement called Modernismo that blended poetry and prose into something magical.
In gorgeous poems of her own, Margarita Engle tells the story of this passionate young man who revolutionized world literature.

left no-repeat;left top;; auto Rubén Darío was haunted his entire life by being abandoned by his mother at a young and tender age. And yet, adopted by a great uncle who was a storyteller, he learned to cope with his pain by telling stories – through the medium of poetry. Soon he became known as “the child poet,” and eventually became a world-famous, globetrotting poet who spawned generations of poets influenced by his untraditional, refreshing style. His first book of poems was published at the age of twenty-one. This biography, told entirely in poetry by a master poet herself, concentrates on Dario’s youth and adolescence, when poetry saved him from hopelessness and abject poverty, and allowed him to see the world from a new perspective.
It’s a message of hope for any teen needing to escape everyday reality. It dares young people to dream, to be honest, to harbor ambitions, to collect stories like stars in their hands.
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