This poem-by-poem guide to Lorca’s Romancero gitano was prompted by the need for some form of guidance to the overwhelming amount of critical material published on the book, the relative neglect or mi
Pablo Neruda is one of the world’s great poets, and Copper Canyon Press has long been dedicated to publishing translations of his work in bilingual editions.The Hands of Day—at long last translated in
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889–19
Drawing on scholastic defence of the Immaculate Conception and on liturgies in medieval Iberia, this book examines how poets took apocryphal stories and biblical figures, like Eve confronting the serp
Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330/1343) is a lively and challenging medieval classic that ranks alongside the works of Dante and Chaucer. This volume is the first to systematically approach the rol
Born in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking El ser que va a morir (1982) which changed the course of Mexican poetry. Her exquisite
This monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Latin America (including Brazil and French Caribbean). The work examines various interdisciplinary approaches as to how these poet
Considered a leading light of the "Latin-American Boom" generation, Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was forced to leave her country at the age of thirty-one when her work was
Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton reflects on his time in Prague, where he witnessed the popular uprising and the Soviet invasion in 1968. This book won the Casa de las Americas Literary Awar
Both an artist and activist, Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1990. This recognition was the culmination of decades of work, as Paz strove to marry traditional Mexican poetry with di
Pena (Hispanic studies, U. of Glasgow) examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three important 20th-century Latin American women poets. They so
A collection of poems by authors from Spain and different countries within the Americas includes works by Leopoldo Lugones, Ana Maria Machado, Gabriela Mistral, Josae Martai, Lope de Vega, Shel Silver
Poetic text recounts the childhood of the noted Chilean author, Pablo Neruda, including his early years in the country, his schooldays, when Gabriela Mistral was one of his teachers, and his student t
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagini
This bilingual anthology, compiled and edited by Francisco Moran, with the collaboration of a superb group of Spanish-English translators, presents a dramatic selection of work by a new generation of
The first available English translation of this work shares numerous selections of the author's most popular poems. A cultural icon in her native Cuba, Loynaz's poetry was considered taboo because of
Standing against the visible landscape—the mountainous volcanoes, the jungles and savannahs—the seven trees conjured in these narrative poems by one of Latin America's masters also evoke another, more
With this collection of poems, Antonio Machado y Ruiz became the primary voice of the Spanish artists known as the Generation of 1898. This compilation features an unabridged edition of Machado's land
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer. "A beast of lips--wolf, lion, you name it--voracious, gluttonous of the fleshiness of words...These poems provide us with stunn
