İngilizce
To Luis G. Monge I come from the remote borders of the land of oblivion. My songs will not sound beneath your balconies, I am the singer of the broken sanctuaries.…
José Julián Herculano del Casal y de la Lastra, also known as Julián del Casal, was born on November 7, 1863, in Havana, Cuba. He was one of the leading forerunners of Modernism in Latin America. He published his first poetry collection, Hojas al viento [Leaves in the Wind], in 1890 and Nieve [Snow] in 1892. He died on October 21, 1893.