The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology by Stavans, Ilan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374100247.

A major bilingual anthology of twentieth-century Latin American poetry During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Daríos quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejos linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borgess cosmopolitanism to Pablo Nerudas placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from Alejandra Pizarniks agonies of the self to Humberto AkAbals examination of all things indigenous, it is through verse that the hemispheres 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 in gathering these works. 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.