"En la poesía mexicana, la obra de Ramón López Velarde es, hasta ahora, la más intensa, la más atrevida tentativa de revelar el alma oculta de un hombre; de poner a flote las más sumergidas e inasibles angustias;...
La suave patria is often regarded as the Mexican national poem, an extraordinary tour-de-force that would change forever the way that poetry would develop in Mexico. It was one of the last works by Ramón López Velarde, who died of pneumonia...