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Juan Enrique Geenzier (1887-1943) was a self-taught Panamanian writer, politician, and diplomat.
In 1916, he won the Natural Flower (Flor Natural) prize at the Floral Games. Geenzier ran the literary magazine Esto y Aquello. He served as a diplomat in Costa Rica, New York, and Venezuela. He also was Secretary of External Relations and the governor of Colon.
Though some romanticism is apparent in Geenzier's poetry, its predominant impulse is modernism; its sentimentality is often somewhat ironic. Demetrio Korsi wrote of Geenzier in his Antología de Panamá: "In his moments of true inspiration, he is simply exquisite."
His works include:
Crepúsculos y sombras (1916)
La tristeza del vals (1921)
Corazón adentro (poems from 1916-1925)
Poesías (1933)
Sangre (1936)
Viejo y Nuevo (1943).
^ a b c d e f g (Spanish) Patricia Pizzurno & Celestino Andrés Araúz. "Juan Enrique Geenzier". Historia de Panama: Panama en el Siglo XX. Critica.
^ a b (Spanish) "Enrique Geenzier". Panama Poesia.
^ (Spanish) Demetrio Korsi. Antología de Panamá: parnaso y prosa. Casa Editorial Maucci (1926), p. 123. ("En sus ratos de verdadera inspiración, es sencillamente exquisito.")