Francisco López Merino

Who was Francisco López Merino?

Francisco López Merino was an Argentine poet born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, who committed suicide at the age of 23.

In 1920 he published Horas de amor, a group of nine poems that later fell victims of auto-censorship. In 1921 he wrote another collection of poems entitled Fragmentos de un libro inconcluso, divided in three sections: "El espejo de mi interior", "Del eterno femenino" and "Cantos". These compositions were never published.

The poem "El alma se me llena de estrellas..." was already present in this group of texts and was later included in his book Tono menor.

López Merino published his poetry in different national newspapers and magazines, principally in El Día and El Argentino of La Plata, the magazine Crónica Social, of the same city, and El Cronista, a newspaper from Chascomús.

In the magazine Valoraciones, edited by the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the National University of La Plata, he wrote two bibliographic notes: the first one refers to the poetry book El árbol, el pájaro y la fuente, by Córdova Iturburu, and the second one deals with the poetry book El imaginero, by Ricardo Molinari.