Mawaki wanda aka haifa a Veracruz, Veracruz, garin da ya fara karatu ya ci gaba a Jalapa.
Ana ɗaukarsa ɗayan manyan mawaƙan Amurka, kuma vigarfinsa da abin da yake da shi na ban sha'awa da sha'awa ya rinjayi mawaka kamar Rubén Darío da Santos Chocano. Tun yana ɗan shekara 14 ya wallafa waƙoƙi da rubutun jaridu kuma a 21 ya fara a matsayin edita na jaridar La Sensitiva.
Tashin hankalin labaran da ya buga wa jaridar El Pueblolo ya tilasta shi barin kasar a 1876 zuwa Amurka. Bayan dawowarsa (1878) ya wakilci gundumar Jalancingo a majalisar dokoki ta Veracruz.
Ya kasance mutum mai yawan fada kuma wanda ya hadu da shi da yawa: a cikin Orizaba, sakamakon wani mummunan fada, an harbe shi da wani abin juzu'i kuma hannu na hagu ya naƙasa; a tashar jirgin ruwa ta Veracruz shima an raunata shi, amma a wannan karon ya kashe maharin nasa.
Ya kasance mataimaki ga Majalisar Tarayyar Tarayyar kuma ya gabatar da shi a Mexico, a cikin 1844, jawabai masu ƙarfin zuciya a kan batun "bashin Ingilishi."
Sakataren majalisar Veracruz, a cikin 1892, ya kashe Federico Wolter wanda ya ci gaba da kasancewa a kurkuku har zuwa 1896. A cikin 1901 ya buga Lascas, littafi kaɗai da ya ba da izini a matsayin ingantacce, yana mai bayyana cewa abubuwan da ya gabata na waƙinsa sun kasance na zamba.
A cikin 1910 an sake kama shi saboda ya kai hari ga ɗaya daga cikin abokan aikinsa a cikin Chamber kuma aka sake shi shekara guda bayan nasarar juyin juya halin Maderista. A lokacin ne ya dawo Jalapa ya jagoranci makarantar share fagen.
A cikin 1913 ya kasance darekta na jaridar El Imparcial, yana tallafawa mulkin kama karya na Victoriano Huerta, bayan faduwar mai kwace, a shekara mai zuwa, dole ne ya bar kasar. Ya tafi Santander da Cuba, a Havana ya sami burodinsa a matsayin malami.
A nasarar da aka samu a zaman majalisar tsarin mulki, a cikin 1920, Carranza ya yi masa afuwa kuma aka sake dawo da shi kasar, duk da haka, ya ƙi karɓar taimakon hukuma da kuma girmamawa da masoyansa suka shirya masa, sai kawai ya sake karɓar umarnin Kwalejin Shirye-shiryen Veracruz da kujera na tarihi.
Lokacin da ya mutu, gawarsa ta karɓi girmamawa ta jama'a kuma an tura shi zuwa ga Rotunda na Maza Masu Haske.
Wakokinsa na farko an rubuta su ne a ƙarƙashin tasirin Victor Hugo, wanda ya sanya wannan mawaƙin a halin da ake ciki na soyayya, halin yanzu ya yi daidai da yanayin ɗabi'unsa.
Tun daga 1884, sauyi daga romancin soyayya zuwa na zamani ana iya ganinsa a cikin waƙinsa har ma da rubutunsa, kodayake juyin halittarsa cikin wannan yanayin ya kasance mai sauri kuma a taƙaice.
Lascas, bayan daurin talala, ya nuna, a wata hanya, komawarsa ga tsofaffi, ma'ana, ga thean wasan Spain, inda Quevedo da Góngora suka kasance muhimmin ɓangare na tasirin sa.
Mawaki mai nuna bambanci, aikinsa yana da mahimmanci don ilimin adabin Mexico.
An tattara aikinsa a:
Parnassus na Mexico (1886)
Wakoki (New York, 1895)
Wakoki (Paris, 1900)
Lascas (Jalapa, 1901 tare da sake sakewa da yawa)
Wakoki (1918)
Kammalallen Waƙoƙi (UNAM, tare da bayanan kula na Antonio Castro Leal, 1941)
Nazarin Waƙoƙi (UNAM 1953)
Gwaji (1954)
