Author: Vicente HuidobroPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208048
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"He is the invisible oxygen of our poetry."--Octavio Paz
The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro
Author: Vicente HuidobroPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208048
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"He is the invisible oxygen of our poetry."--Octavio Paz
Alternating Current
Author: Octavio PazPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721685
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, André Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. A scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as “a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold” (Christian Science Monitor).
Spanish-American Literature
Author: Enrique Anderson ImbertPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814313886
Category : Latin American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
With a focus both historical and literary, Enrique Anderson-Imbert surveys the literature of Hispanic America. His study is not merely an historical synthesis of names, titles, and dates; it is, rather, a critical analytical appraisal of the verse, prose, and drama written in Spanish in the Americas in the contemporary period.
Poets on the Edge
Author: Jesús SepúlvedaPublisher: BrownWalker Press
ISBN: 1627345760
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Poets on the Edge critically explores the relationship between poetry and its context through the work of four Latin American poets: Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1898-1948), Peruvian César Vallejo (1893-1938), Chilean Juan Luis Martínez (1943-1993), and Argentine Néstor Perlongher (1949-1992). While Huidobro and Vallejo establish their poetics on the edge in the context of worldwide conflagrations and the emergence of the historical avant-garde during the first half of the twentieth century, Martínez and Perlongher produce their work in the context of the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships respectively, developing different strategies to overcome the panoptic societies of control installed throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Martínez recreates the avant-garde tradition in a playful manner to avoid censorship and also proposes a philosophical poetics to stage a utopian project oriented toward redesigning the house of civilization that has fallen apart. Perlongher unfolds his peculiar Neobaroque sensitivity in order to reshape the complex Latin American identities, culminating his poetic project with two collections written under the influence of ayahuasca-based ceremonies. Poets on the Edge offers the reader a new understanding of the hybrid and edgy nature of Latin American poetics and subjectivity as well as of the evolution of poetry written in Spanish during the twentieth century.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314241
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2060
Book Description
A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
Zero
Author: Die Romische Republik
Author: EPUB 2-3Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 143814072X
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1899
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive introduction to 20th- and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
Panjandrum
Author: The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry
Author: R. Victoria AranaPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
Citizen of Oblivion: El Ciudadano Del Olvido
Author: Vicente HuidobroPublisher: Shearsman Books
ISBN: 9781848616943
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The poems here were composed 1924-1934, and come from the heated period in which Altazor and Skyquake had germinated, but were only published in 1941, in Santiago, part of a summing-up by the author of his life's work.