Claudia Lars

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Claudia Lars (1899 - 1974) born in Armenia, Santa Ana in 1899 as Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Central American poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974.

Claudia was married to Guatemalan writer Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla. Claudia Lars belonged to the stock of grand poets of America, for this lyric, feminine (though not feminist, but completely woman), poet took Latin- American poetry out of its hypocritical prostration and fruit of the 19th century sensibilities, instead singing songs to love with erotic and stupendous turns. With clean innocence Lars invoked the fertility of her body, her fecundity, the joy of living, and the feeling of mothers that hoped for a happy tomorrow for their children: a maternal passion that converted them through the earth while waiting for the seed of a new life. Among her contemporary female poets are: Juana de Ibarborou, Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, and the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, 1945). Mistral in Chile, like Lars in El Salvador, did not have, among women &mdash, companions within whom to journey fully in the search of the poetic spirit of her peoples, the essential need of these countries — they didn't have continuity in other feminine voices. Claudia Lars wrote transparent poetry, but allowed for profound being; at times her formal mastery overcame the poetry, and her message was forgotten, but in each poem she wrote readers find a poet manifesting life, opening paths before unrealized by our sensibilities, communicating a state of grace that had never before, and has never after, been found in the written poetry of the women of El Salvador.