| Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology Contributor(s): Tapscott, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0292781407 ISBN-13: 9780292781405 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: August 1996 Annotation: Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz Attest. Yet this rich literary production has never been gathered into a single volume that attempts to represent the full range and the most important writers until now. Here, under one cover, are the major poets and their major works, which appear both in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and in excellent English translations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 861 |
| LCCN: 95040288 |
| Series: Texas Pan American Series |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.06" W x 10.54" (2.20 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary production has never been gathered into a single volume that attempts to represent the full range and the most important writers--until now. Here, under one cover, are the major poets and their major works, which appear both in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and in excellent English translations. The poems selected include the most famous representative poems of each poetic tradition, accompanied by other poems that represent the best of that tradition and of each poet's work within it. Tapscott's selections cover the full range, from the Modernist generation though the Mexican Revolutionary post-Moderns and the Vanguardist poets to very contemporary younger writers of political and experimental commitments. In all, eighty-five poets, including Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Nicolás Guillén, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Carlos Pellicer, César Vallejo, and Cecília Meireles, and over 400 poems are included, often in translations by some of North America's most esteemed poets. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tapscott, Stephen: - Stephen Tapscott is Professor of Literature at MIT. He translated Pablo Neruda’s 100 Love Sonnets / Cien sonetos de amor (UT Press, 1986). |