HUMBERTO FIERRO ALSO WAS:

Ecuadorian poet pertaining to the call decapitated Generation, composed by poets of the creole aristocracy. Son of a well-to-do family, he acquired a thorough education, and devoted much of his time to reading his favorite authors on his parents' estates.

Humberto Fierro

Of an exasperated, introverted, simple and modest sensibility, he served all his life as an amanuensis in an office of the Public Ministry, without worrying about improving his economic situation. He focused all his dedication on poetry, music and painting, and excelled mainly in the first of these fields. Together with Arturo Borja, Ernesto Noboa Caamaño and Medardo Angel Silva, Humberto Fierro forms the group of modernists called the Generation decapitated. Following in the footsteps of the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, the Ecuadorian modernists break with the traditional forms of poetry, renounce the rigidity of the measured verse and give preference to the inner rhythm; but, above all, they claim the dream, the fabulation and the enthusiasm like pillars of the literary creation. The lute of the valley (1919), which was published in the life of the author, and Velada palatina, published in 1949, are the titles signed by Fierro, whose purpose was to elaborate a cult-aesthetic system far removed from national referents, from the prosaicness of a country plunged into poverty and political corruption. Like Borja and Noboa, Fierro's poetics is that of class disagreement, that of the split between his aristocratic reverie and his mestizo citizenship