favorite poet

first blogpost on this blog here, and I'm here to say that Mario Benedetti is my favorite poet so far. I found him while looking at some Pablo Neruda poems, and I started looking through his stuff. It was pretty good.
Benedetti is from Uruguay, a small country in South America. He wrote poetry, novels, essays, short stories, and even two plays. Hos works covered a variety of topics- politics, world events, love, and much more. His political activism, however, got him exiled for 12 years during the military dictatorship of Uruguay in 1973. Upon his return, he was awarded many prizes within the South American community.
His poems generally have a bunch of stanzas, but you don't notice it because each verse doesn't contain too many words.I found myself enjoying his poems pretty quickly, as they were constructed simply, but with a point in mind. Compared to other poets we’ve read with long, convoluted poems with a message that you had to really think about to understand, these were meant for people to understand, without the complicated jargon of other poems. In this sense, he does a fantastic job of expressing himself in a way everyone can understand, over a variety of topics.
While I would post examples of his works, not many have been translated into English.
Here is one called Poema Frustrado that if you want you can put into google translate. It's about his and a friend's reaction to the use of the atomic bomb in wwii.
This other one is one called When you are smiling, and is about a totally different topic.

I hope y'all enjoy!
(though tell me what you think in the comments pls)