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FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ilan StavansPublish date:2012-03-27Pages:768
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374533182ISBN-10:374533180UPC:9780374533182Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.01 x 6.02 x 1.93 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCCG2X4SZN

A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish and Portuguese.

During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rub n Dar o's quest to renew the Spanish language to C sar Vallejo's linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borges's cosmopolitanism to Pablo Neruda's placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from Alejandra Pizarnik's agonies of the self to Humberto Ak'abal's examination of all things indigenous, it is through verse that the hemisphere's cantankerous collective soul in an age of overhaul might best be understood.

A brilliant, moving, and thought-provoking summation of these forking paths, The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry invites us to look at an illustrious literary tradition with fresh eyes. Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost scholars of Hispanic culture and a distinguished translator, goes beyond easy geographical and linguistic categorizations. This bilingual anthology features eighty-four authors from sixteen different countries writing in Spanish, Portuguese, Mapuche, Nahuatl, Quechua, Mazatec, Zapotec, Ladino, and Spanglish. The poems are rendered into English in inspired fashion by first-rate translators such as Elizabeth Bishop, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur.

In these pages the reader will experience the power of poetry to account for a hundred years in the life of a restless continent.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374533182ISBN-10:374533180UPC:9780374533182Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.01 x 6.02 x 1.93 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCCG2X4SZN

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books, including Art and Anger, Spanglish, On Borrowed Words, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, and Becoming Amreicans, have been translated into a dozen languages.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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