focused on conveying sensations to the reader. In his poems, a loved one was not an ideal, but a flawed being of flesh and blood. Aspects of Modernism are seen in how he explores the sensory and the passionate. His love poems were his most commercially successful works. Selected works Algo mío (1912) Aroma de mujer (1927) Poesías (1964) (Edición póstuma) References External links Biography and works of Federico Barreto 20th-century Peruvian poets 1862 births 1929 deaths People from Tacna Peruvian male poets 20th-century male writers