Amado Nervo is fondly remembered here in Tepic. His childhood home is preserved and serves as a Museum.
This apparently bronze sculpture of him is lifesized and depicts him casually sitting on a wall with his left foot resting on a step above the right one. His arms also rest on separate parts of a wall with the right hand holding a pen to a stack of papers. The sculpture is located in Juan Escutia Park.
The plaque reads:
"TEATRO AL AIRE LIBRE
'AMADO NERVO'
INAUGURADO POR EL C. PRESIDENTE
DE LA REPUBLICA
LIC.
JOSE LOPEZ PORTILLO
TEPIC, NAYARIT - MAYO DE 1979"
Wikipedia (
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"Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo was the Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay, journalist, poet, and educator. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism. Nervo is noted as one of the most important Mexican poets of the 19th century...
Published works
El bachiller (The Bachelor) 1895, novel
"Perlas Negras (Black Pearls)" 1898, poetry
"Místicas (Mystical)" 1898, poetry
"Poemas publicada en París (Poems published in Paris)" 1901, poetry
"El éxodo y las flores del camino (The exodus of the road and flowers)" 1902, poetry
"Lira heroica" 1902, poetry
"Los jardines interiores (The inner gardens)" 1905, poetry
Almas que pasan (Souls that pass) 1906, prose
"En voz baja (In a low voice)" 1909, poetry
Ellos (They) prose
Juana de Asbaje: biografía de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Joan of Asbaje: biography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz) 1910, essay
"Serenidad (Serenity)" 1912, poetry
"Mis filosofías (My philosophy)" 1912, review
"Elevación (Elevation)" 1916, poetry
El diablo desinteresado (The Devil disinterested) 1916, novel
"Plenitud (Wholeness)" 1918, poetry
"El estanque de los lotos (The lotus pond)" 1919, poetry
"El arquero divino (Goalkeeper divine)" 1919, poetry, published posthumously
Los balcones (The balconies) 1922, novel
"La amada inmóvil (The Immovable Loved One)" 1922, poetry, published posthumously
"Gratia plena"
"Una Esperanza (A Hope)"
"Muerto y Resucitado (Death and Reincarnation)
"La raza de bronce (The Bronze Race)"
"Éxtasis (Ecstasy)'"
As for the crater, Wikipedia (
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"Nervo is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 63kilometers.[1] Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Nervo is named for the Mexican poet Amado Nervo, who lived from 1870 to 1919."