Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta

Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta

Author: Luis Pal?s Matos

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781611922790

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Although today Luis Palés Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America." Palés Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbeans leading advocates of poesía negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería: Poesía Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of Puerto Ricos culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere. Translator Julio Marzán has selected the best of Palés Matoss poems from throughout his career, among them "Prelude in Boricua," "Danza Negra," "Buccaneer Winds," and "Elegy on the Duke of Marmalade." He also provides a helpful glossary of obscure terms and an introduction that locates Palés Matos in the broader cultural context of his contemporaries and poetic influences including such North American poets as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vachel Lindsay.


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Download or read book Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta written by Luis Pal?s Matos and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although today Luis Palés Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America." Palés Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbeans leading advocates of poesía negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería: Poesía Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of Puerto Ricos culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere. Translator Julio Marzán has selected the best of Palés Matoss poems from throughout his career, among them "Prelude in Boricua," "Danza Negra," "Buccaneer Winds," and "Elegy on the Duke of Marmalade." He also provides a helpful glossary of obscure terms and an introduction that locates Palés Matos in the broader cultural context of his contemporaries and poetic influences including such North American poets as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vachel Lindsay.

Jewels in the Mud

Jewels in the Mud

Author: Martín Veiga

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789543841127

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Small Stations Press is extraordinarily privileged to publish a selection of Cork-based Galician poet Martín Veiga's poetry from the last thirty years in a bilingual Galician-English edition, Alfaias na lama: Poesía selecta 1990-2020 / Jewels in the Mud: Selected Poems 1990-2020. The poems are selected and introduced by fellow Galician poet Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo while the translation is by contemporary Irish poet Keith Payne, which means the reader holds in their hands the collaborative work of three poets at the height of their powers. In these forty-five poems, Veiga takes us from the Atlantic coast of his childhood in Noia to Cork in Ireland, where he has been living for more than twenty years. This move away from his native shores has led him, through marriage and fatherhood, to a greater serenity and depth of vision that will delight and move, inspire and surprise, in equal measure. This is the journey we are all required to make - from the chimera of the self we ourselves have shakily constructed to the substantial self that can only be the gift of another. Martín Veiga is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College Cork and has published six poetry collections to date. His fifth collection, Diary of Crosses Green, is available in English from Francis Boutle Publishers. Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo has written more than twenty collections of poetry, as well as plays, stories and children's literature. His work has received prestigious literary awards. Keith Payne is one of the foremost translators of Galician poetry into English. His translations include the anthology Six Galician Poets for Arc Publications, The Desert by María do Cebreiro and Second Tongue by Yolanda Castaño.


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Download or read book Jewels in the Mud written by Martín Veiga and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Stations Press is extraordinarily privileged to publish a selection of Cork-based Galician poet Martín Veiga's poetry from the last thirty years in a bilingual Galician-English edition, Alfaias na lama: Poesía selecta 1990-2020 / Jewels in the Mud: Selected Poems 1990-2020. The poems are selected and introduced by fellow Galician poet Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo while the translation is by contemporary Irish poet Keith Payne, which means the reader holds in their hands the collaborative work of three poets at the height of their powers. In these forty-five poems, Veiga takes us from the Atlantic coast of his childhood in Noia to Cork in Ireland, where he has been living for more than twenty years. This move away from his native shores has led him, through marriage and fatherhood, to a greater serenity and depth of vision that will delight and move, inspire and surprise, in equal measure. This is the journey we are all required to make - from the chimera of the self we ourselves have shakily constructed to the substantial self that can only be the gift of another. Martín Veiga is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College Cork and has published six poetry collections to date. His fifth collection, Diary of Crosses Green, is available in English from Francis Boutle Publishers. Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo has written more than twenty collections of poetry, as well as plays, stories and children's literature. His work has received prestigious literary awards. Keith Payne is one of the foremost translators of Galician poetry into English. His translations include the anthology Six Galician Poets for Arc Publications, The Desert by María do Cebreiro and Second Tongue by Yolanda Castaño.

The Other Man Was Me

The Other Man Was Me

Author: Rafael Campo

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1994-07-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781611922448

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A collection of poems by a San Francisco doctor of Latino origin. The subjects include: an immigrant's son discovers his cultural identity, a physician awakens to the suffering of his patients, and two gay Latinos fall in love.


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Download or read book The Other Man Was Me written by Rafael Campo and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by a San Francisco doctor of Latino origin. The subjects include: an immigrant's son discovers his cultural identity, a physician awakens to the suffering of his patients, and two gay Latinos fall in love.

Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black

Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black

Author: Luis Palés Matos

Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black written by Luis Palés Matos and published by Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Numinous Site

The Numinous Site

Author: Julio Marzán

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780838635810

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"Luis Pales Matos, a white man who began the poesia negra movement in Latin America in 1925, is the subject of The Numinous Site, Julio Marzan's latest book. Unlike its English-language counterpart, poesia negra refers to its subject and not the poet's race, so white poets are credited with writing poesia negra." "Pales's poesia afroantillana popularized the "dark" forces (African roots and unprestigious language) that were the white society's antimatter, an antipoetic consciousness that, complemented and refined by other poesia negra, opened the Latin American poem." "Perhaps influenced by Heidegger, throughout his work Pales reiterated his obsession with the frontier where the mundane touches the spiritual or metaphysical. His poems take the reader on a passage to an encounter with the imagistic representation of that force informing the soul of the individual, the collectivity, and the physical world. All his poems take us on that passage, including his socially conscious Afro-Antillean poems, because they originate from Pales's sense that language, including "Boricua," is synonymous with time and our sense of being. For Luis Pales Matos, poesia was an altar, and style a liturgy that, whether performed in drumbeats or words, invoked the poetic essence that he called the "numen.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Download or read book The Numinous Site written by Julio Marzán and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Luis Pales Matos, a white man who began the poesia negra movement in Latin America in 1925, is the subject of The Numinous Site, Julio Marzan's latest book. Unlike its English-language counterpart, poesia negra refers to its subject and not the poet's race, so white poets are credited with writing poesia negra." "Pales's poesia afroantillana popularized the "dark" forces (African roots and unprestigious language) that were the white society's antimatter, an antipoetic consciousness that, complemented and refined by other poesia negra, opened the Latin American poem." "Perhaps influenced by Heidegger, throughout his work Pales reiterated his obsession with the frontier where the mundane touches the spiritual or metaphysical. His poems take the reader on a passage to an encounter with the imagistic representation of that force informing the soul of the individual, the collectivity, and the physical world. All his poems take us on that passage, including his socially conscious Afro-Antillean poems, because they originate from Pales's sense that language, including "Boricua," is synonymous with time and our sense of being. For Luis Pales Matos, poesia was an altar, and style a liturgy that, whether performed in drumbeats or words, invoked the poetic essence that he called the "numen.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights

El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights

Author: Nicanor Parra

Publisher: Lumen Press

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788426429919

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Los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra. El último apaga la luz es una amplia y cuidada selección de la obra de quien según Harold Bloom (es incuestionablemente uno de los mejores poetas de Occidente). El libro abarca desde el inaugural Poemas y antipoemas (que se incluye íntegro) hasta los Discursos de sobremesa, pasando por Canciones rusas, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui, Lear, rey & mendigo y Hojas de Parra (que por su centralidad en el proyecto antipoético también se incluye entero), más algunos poemas dispersos como Quédate con tu Borges o El rap de la Sagrada Familia Seleccionados por Matías Rivas, los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra, una gran puerta de entrada para quienes no conozcan cabalmente la antipoesía y, a la vez, la mejor síntesis para quienes ya la admiran, la estudian o, simplemente, la leen con renovada passion. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION These selected poems make up what is thought of as the essential legacy of Nicanor Parra. The Last One Out Shuts the Lights is a broad and carefully selected collection of the work by an author who according to Harold Bloom, is unquestionably one of the best poets of the Western hemisphere. The book goes from his beginnings in Poemas y antipoemas / Poems and Antipoems which are included in their entirety, to Discursos de sobremesa / After-Dinner Declarations and Canciones rusas / Russian Songs, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui / Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui, Lear, Rey & Mendigo / Lear, King & Beggar, and Hojas de Parra / Grape Leaves. Pages of Parra, also included in its entirety, among others. Selected by Matias Rivas, these essential Nicanor Parra poems are a great gateway for those who aren't too familiar with antipoetry, and also are a perfect selection for those who already admire it, study it, or like to reread it with renewed passion.


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Download or read book El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights written by Nicanor Parra and published by Lumen Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra. El último apaga la luz es una amplia y cuidada selección de la obra de quien según Harold Bloom (es incuestionablemente uno de los mejores poetas de Occidente). El libro abarca desde el inaugural Poemas y antipoemas (que se incluye íntegro) hasta los Discursos de sobremesa, pasando por Canciones rusas, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui, Lear, rey & mendigo y Hojas de Parra (que por su centralidad en el proyecto antipoético también se incluye entero), más algunos poemas dispersos como Quédate con tu Borges o El rap de la Sagrada Familia Seleccionados por Matías Rivas, los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra, una gran puerta de entrada para quienes no conozcan cabalmente la antipoesía y, a la vez, la mejor síntesis para quienes ya la admiran, la estudian o, simplemente, la leen con renovada passion. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION These selected poems make up what is thought of as the essential legacy of Nicanor Parra. The Last One Out Shuts the Lights is a broad and carefully selected collection of the work by an author who according to Harold Bloom, is unquestionably one of the best poets of the Western hemisphere. The book goes from his beginnings in Poemas y antipoemas / Poems and Antipoems which are included in their entirety, to Discursos de sobremesa / After-Dinner Declarations and Canciones rusas / Russian Songs, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui / Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui, Lear, Rey & Mendigo / Lear, King & Beggar, and Hojas de Parra / Grape Leaves. Pages of Parra, also included in its entirety, among others. Selected by Matias Rivas, these essential Nicanor Parra poems are a great gateway for those who aren't too familiar with antipoetry, and also are a perfect selection for those who already admire it, study it, or like to reread it with renewed passion.

Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

Author: María Claudia André

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 1653

ISBN-13: 1317726340

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Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.


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Download or read book Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia written by María Claudia André and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 1653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.

Acknowledged Legislator

Acknowledged Legislator

Author: Edward J. Carvalho

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1611476429

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Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background information on the poet’s life and work; offering an examination into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate through several theoretical frames—from Espada’s attention to resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class consciousness grounded in labor rights—Acknowledged Legislator offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the poet’s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we read Espada, now and in the future.


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Download or read book Acknowledged Legislator written by Edward J. Carvalho and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background information on the poet’s life and work; offering an examination into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate through several theoretical frames—from Espada’s attention to resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class consciousness grounded in labor rights—Acknowledged Legislator offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the poet’s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we read Espada, now and in the future.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

Author: Ileana Rodríguez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 131641910X

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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.


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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature written by Ileana Rodríguez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.

Wáchale!

Wáchale!

Author: Ilan Stavans

Publisher: Marcato Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings that celebrates diversity among Latinos.


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Download or read book Wáchale! written by Ilan Stavans and published by Marcato Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings that celebrates diversity among Latinos.