Thirty-five years after her death, this book reassesses the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) in the light of recent publications of her 'complete' poetry and prose, diaries, and previousl
“Laughter is the language of the soul,” Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, “the saddest”) century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisi
In order to explore the symbolic mode of thought, as contrasted with the rational mode, Williamson (modern languages, U. of Ottawa) looks at the work of Mexican poet Paz (1914-98), whom he calls one o
A seminal work in Latin America’s modernismo movement, this first anthology of verse by José Martí is available in a complete English translation for the first time. This accessible,
Representing the Spanish American modernismo movement, which ran from the early 1880s to 1916, this bilingual anthology presents work by 18 modernista poets from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Me
Remarkable female writers have often been overlooked in literary histories. Sor Juana was marginalized further by being illegitimate, Creole and living in colonial Mexico in the late seventeenth centu
Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of Jorge
Pablo Neruda's Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada (1924), despite immense popular success, has received scant attention from scholars, often being studies out of context and in a relative
“For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history.”—The New York Times A
Known as the “Spanish Homer,” Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627) is widely considered to be Spain’s greatest poet. He was both praised and vilified during his lifetime,
In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega w
Jaime Sabines is a national treasure in Mexico. He is considered by Octavio Paz to be instrumental to the genesis of modern Latin American poetry and “one of the best poets” of the Spanish language. T
A young boy with two homelands and a delightful sense of wonder comes to life in Jorge Argueta’s first collection of poems for children. Young Jorgito lives in San Francisco’s Mission Dis
This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible sel
