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The Poetry of the Americas provides an expansive history of relations between poets in the US and Latin America over three decades, from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II to 1960s Cold War cultural policy.
Sommario
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Hazarding the Poetry of the Americas
- The Poetry of the Americas: A Genealogy
- Integrationist Literary History
- Cultural Diplomacy from Good Neighbors to Countercultures
- Six Chapters in the Poetry of the Americas
- 1. Hemispheric Solidarities: Wartime Poetry and the Limits of the Good Neighbor
- The Office of the Coordinators of Inter-American Poetry
- Bridging the Hemisphere: Carrera Andrade's Hart Crane
- Minority Islands: Hughes, Frank, de Moraes, and the Poem of Racial Democracy
- Between Dissidence and Diplomacy: Neruda, Bishop, Burgos
- William Carlos Williams and the Ardor of Puerto Rico
- Lysander Kemp and the Gunboat Good Neighbor
- 2. A Xenoglossary for the Americas
- Foreign Words and Bloc Politics
- Steven's Lingua Franca et Jocundissima
- Post-Symbolists
- Lezama's Citations
- Borges and the Dawn of English
- 3. The Ruins of Inter-Americanism
- Privileged Observatories: A Midcentury Culture of Pre-Columbian Ruins
- Dead Mouths: Neruda at Machu Picchu
- Repossessed Dynamics: Olson and Barlow Among Stones
- Mechano Hells and Mayan Isms: Ginsberg, Lamantia, Cardenal
- Hidden Doors: Ferlinghetti and Adán at Machu Picchu
- 4. The New Inter-American Poetry
- Beats and Barbudos
- Blackburn, Cortázar and all the Village Cronopios
- The True Pan-American Union: Margaret Randall and El Corno Emplumado
- Transnational Martyrology: Heraud, Quena, Eshleman
- Neruda, Deep Image, and the Politics of Translation
- Manhattan Poems beyond the New York School
- 5. Questions of Anticommunism: Hemispheric Lyric in the 1960s
- Bishop's First Anticommunist Shudder
- Lowell's Imperial Phantasmagoria
- Walcott in the Gulf
- Padilla in Difficult Times
- Stations in the Gulf
- 6. Renga and Heteronymy: Cosmopolitan Poetics after 1967
- Go Home, Octavio Paz!
- La Renga de Occidente
- Heteronyms and Literary History
- Notes
- Index
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Harris Feinsod is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.
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The Poetry of the Americas provides an expansive history of relations between poets in the US and Latin America over three decades, from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II to 1960s Cold War cultural policy.
