Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, recognized as the Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984. He is a significant member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry, known for his unique voice and contributions to his country's literary heritage.
The publication of Jonathan Cohen's translation of Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasia, by the great national poet of the Dominican Republic, and an unquestionably major Caribbean poet, Pedro Mir, shows another side entirely of Mir's work: the sensual and erotic.