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[Hispanic Poetry - a selected list]

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.

[Graphic of flint serpent stamp design] 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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