The Equestrian Turtle and Other PoemsCsar Moro The Equestrian Turtle is one of the most remarkable poetic collections of twentieth century Peru and a key Surrealist text. Written in Mexico in 1938 1939 and published in Lima in 1957, this cycle of poems is an oblique chronicle of the poets relationship with the Mexican army officer Antonio Acosta. Exiled from Peru for political reasons, Moro spent the next ten years in Mexico, where he composed the thirteen poems included in the original