"For nearly 5 centuries, the rich tapestry of Latino poetry has been woven from a wealth of languages and cultures—a "tremendous continental MIXTURAO," as Tato Laviera writes. The Latino poetic imagination has flourished in the U.S., distinguished by its profound engagement with pasts...

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Other Authors:	González, Rigoberto 1970- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York, N.Y. The Library of America [2024]
Series:	The Library of America 382
Subjects:	American poetry / Hispanic American authors Latin American poetry Lyrik Hispanos
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"For nearly 5 centuries, the rich tapestry of Latino poetry has been woven from a wealth of languages and cultures—a "tremendous continental MIXTURAO," as Tato Laviera writes. The Latino poetic imagination has flourished in the U.S., distinguished by its profound engagement with pasts both historical and mythic; its reckoning with the complexities of language, land, and identity; and its vision of a nation enriched by the stories of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and their descendants. Now, in an unprecedented anthology edited by Rigoberto González, Library of America brings together more than 180 poets whose works testify to the beauty, inventiveness, and power of this vital and expanding tradition. The earliest poems here depict encounters—often violent—between European settlers and Indigenous peoples. Selections of Mexican American corridos and other song forms reveal the deep vernacular and musical roots of Latino poetry. As with all the Spanish-language poems in this anthology, the original texts are paired with English translations, many commissioned for this volume. Poems by notable émigrés in the United States stretching back to the nineteenth century—the Puerto Rican revolutionary Lola Rodríguez de Tió, the Cuban national hero José Martí, and later the Mexican modernist José Juan Tablada—show the global outlook of an art form that transcends borders to explore ideas of home and homeland in provocative ways. Latino poetry’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century is captured in this anthology as never before. The 1960s saw the emergence of the Chicano Movement, whose poets, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Francisco X. Alarcón, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Lorna Dee Cervantes among them, expressed a radical new sense of cultural pride inspired by Indigenous conceptions of origin... culminates with the most comprehensive survey of 21st-century Latino poetry yet published." "This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers 'a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to be American' (Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize winner) Includes more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presents those poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.--
Item Description:	"Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is the centerpiece of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a national public humanities initiative made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities and Emerson Collective."--Page ix
Physical Description:	xxxix, 657 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:	9781598537833