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Agosin, Marjorie,
ed. These are not Sweet Girls: Latin American Women Poets.
Fredonia: White Pine Press, 1994. South America is
well-represented in this anthology of twentieth century women
poets.
Arroyo, Rane. Columbus's Orphan: Poetry.
Arcadia: JVC Books, 1993. Sometimes somber visions
of the American landscape by this Chicago-born Latino
poet.
Burgos, Julia de. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete
Poems. Trans. Jack Agueros. Williamantic: Curbstone
Press, 1997. A bilingual collection of poetry by one of Puerto Rico's
greatest poets.
Cruz, Victor Hernandez. Panoramas. Minnneapolis: Coffee House
Press, 1997. Poems and essays by the Guggenheim Fellowship award
winner.
Cruz, Victor Hernandez, Qunitana, Leroy, and Suarez, Virgil,
eds. Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. New York: Persea Books,
1995. A
sampling of modern Latino poets.
Cruz Varela, Maria Elena.
Ballad of the Blood: The Poems of Maria Elena Cruz Varela.
Trans. Mairym Cruz-Bernal and Debrah Digges. Hopewell: Ecco Press,
1996. Sometimes frightening collection by this survivor of
imprisonment by Castro.
Cumpian, Carlos.
Armadillo Charm. Chicago: Tia Chucha Press,
1996. View
of an America consumed by greed and a twisted sense of
progress.
Espada,
Martin. Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction.
Tempe: Bilingual Press, 1994. Themes of migration and
alienation add insight into the lives of the characters that the poet
describes.
Gander, Forrest, ed. Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve
Contemporary Mexican Women. Trans. Zoe Anglesey. Minneapolis: Milkweed
Editions, 1993. Bilingual anthology of new voices from
Mexico.
Mistral, Gabriela. A Gabriela Mistral Reader. Trans.
Marla Giachett. Ed. Marjorie Agostin. Fredonia: White Pine
Press, 1993. Poems and essays from the Chilean recipient of the Nobel Prize
for Literature.
Paz, Octavio. The collected Poems of Octavio Paz,
1957-1987. Trans. Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions,
1957. A
master of Mexican verse in comprehensive edition.
Santiago, Roberto, ed.
Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology.
New
York: Ballantine Books, 1995. Poetry, prose, fiction and
drama by more than fifty Puerto Rican writers.
Tapscott, Stephen, ed.
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology.
Austin: University of Texas Press. 1996. Spans a century of verse
covering political protest to post- modernism.
Varela, Frank. Serpent
Underfoot. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1993. Imagery strong enough to carry the reader into these poems and
enable him to own the experience.
Artwork: Flat
stamp design showing the flint serpent (Itzcoatl). Design Motifs of
Ancient Mexico. Jorge Enciso, 1947.
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