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Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta

2000-11-30 Poetry
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Release : 2000-11-30
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Book Synopsis Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta by : Luis Pal?s Matos

Download or read book Selected Poems / PoesÕa Selecta written by Luis Pal?s Matos. This book was released on 2000-11-30. 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.

Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black

2010 Poetry
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Release : 2010
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black by : Luis Palés Matos

Download or read book Tom-toms of Kinky Hair and All Things Black written by Luis Palés Matos. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acknowledged Legislator

2014-04-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-04-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Acknowledged Legislator by : Edward J. Carvalho

Download or read book Acknowledged Legislator written by Edward J. Carvalho. This book was released on 2014-04-17. 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 Numinous Site

1995 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1995
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Numinous Site by : Julio Marzán

Download or read book The Numinous Site written by Julio Marzán. This book was released on 1995. 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

2024-09-10 Poetry
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Release : 2024-09-10
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Book Synopsis El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights by : Nicanor Parra

Download or read book El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights written by Nicanor Parra. This book was released on 2024-09-10. 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.

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