Jorge Eduardo Eielson, born in Perú in 1924, was a poet and plastic artist who is considered one of the most interesting and original voices in Latin American poetry. At the age of 21, Eielson won Peru’s National Poetry Prize, and the following year its National Theater Prize. In 1951, he traveled to Italy for a summer vacation and decided to settle permanently in Rome. In the 70s, he immersed himself in Peru’s pre-Colombian art which powerfully influenced his own work. A visionary, Eielson proposed the distribution of his ashes on the moon’s surface, maintaining that the Moon was the ideal cemetery for poets. Eielson died in March 2006 in Milan. A recipient of the Guggenheim Prize, his poems have been translated into more than ten languages. Eielson's friend, Martha Canfield, created the Jorge Eielson Study Center in Florence, which seeks to preserve the poet's memory and spread his legacy.