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He started to write poems about the year 1925. These poems were picked up in the book Señardá, which was published five years later. These poems are sonnets about Galician landscapes.In 1933 he published Corazón do vento and in 1941 he published in Buenos Aires his only book written in Castilian language: Contra el ángel y la noche.Cámaros verdes (1947) is his best poetry book. In this book, he shows a new view of metrics using different strophes and rhyme.De día a día (1960) is a collection of poems he had been writing for thirty years.In 1961, the year of his death, he published Lanza de soledá. It is a collection of sonnets where he talks about life, death and the passage of time. That same year he published Nenias where he expresses his obsession about death, which is almost a premonition.Leva o seu cantare (1964) is a posthumous book. It was published because of the homage his friends paid to him. It is a collection of poems that had not been included in previous volumes.He was also an essayist, critic and lexicographer. He collaborated in many newspapers and in Spanish and foreign magazines.