The career of Rogelio Sinán--poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, diplomat, and educator--represents a high point in Panamanian letters. As Guillermo Andreve writes in his article "Rogelio Sinán, abanderado y maestro," published in 1933 in Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), Sinán is known both nationally and internationally as "el abanderado y maestro de las letras panameñas" (the standard-bearer and master of the Panamanian letters). After the publication of Onda (Wave, 1929), his first book of poems, Sinán was credited with initiating the avant-garde movement in Panama. Though one of the greatest poets that Panama produced, he remains little known; his books of poetry were put out typically by publishing houses of modest renown. Whatever continental fame he received resulted from his works of narrative rather than from his collections of verse. Because of articles by critics such as Gloria Guardia, Elsie Alvarado...