Rodrigo Abelardo Pesántez Rodas (25 July 1937 – 2 April 2020) was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.

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Pesántez Rodas was born in Azogues. He died on 2 April 2020, in Guayaquil, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador.^[1][2]

• Visión y revisión de la literatura ecuatoriana (2006)^[3]
• Panorama del ensayo en el Ecuador (2019)^[4]
• De cuerpo entero: antología poética (2008)^[5]
• Presencia de la mujer ecuatoriana en la poesía (1960)^[6]
• Poesía de un tiempo (1974)^[7]