Research Catalog

Title

Reversible monuments : contemporary Mexican poetry / edited by Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Torre, Mónica de la.
• Wiegers, Michael.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xvii, 675 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the first generation of Mexican poets to hold in common an international perspective. Unlike anthologies offering only one or two poems by each author, Reversible Monuments affords its poets space enough to present larger-than-usual selections, allowing readers to more fully realize the individual voices. The translations, by both distinguished translators and brilliant new practitioners, are concise and transparent, and most are published here for the first time. In addition, several indigenous poets who write in Zapotec, Tzeltal, and Mazatec are presented tri-lingually.

Subject

• Mexican poetry > 20th century > Translations into English
• Mexican poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Mexican poetry – 20th century – Translations into English.
• Mexican poetry – 20th century.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Language (note)

• English translations with original Spanish language texts.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

María Baranda -- Efraín Bartolomé -- Alberto Blanco -- Carmen Boullosa -- Coral Bracho -- Búffalo Conde -- Elsa Cross -- Alfonso D'Auino -- Antonio Deltoro -- Gerardo Deniz -- Jorge Fernández Granados -- Malva Flores -- Gloria Gervitz -- Francisco Hernández -- Claudia Hernández De Valle-Arizpe -- David Huerta -- Pura López Colomé -- Tedi López Mills -- Ernesto Lumbreras -- Eduardo Milán -- Fabio Morábito -- Josué Ramírez -- Juan Gregario Regino -- José Luis Rivas -- Francisco Segovia -- Pedro Serrano -- Víctor Terán -- Natalia Toledo -- Manuel Ulacia -- Veronica Volkow -- Heriberto Yépez.

ISBN

1556591594 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002006189

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library