TheCambridgeCompaniontoLatinAmericanPoetryprovideshistoricalcontextontheevolutionoftheLatinAmericanpoetictraditionfromthesixteenthcenturytothepresentday.Itisorganizedintothreeparts.PartIprovidesacomprehensive,chronologicalsurveyofLatinAmericanpoetryandincludesseparatechaptersonColonialpoetry,Romanticism/modernism,theavant-garde,conversationalpoetry,andcontemporarypoetry.PartIIcontainssixsuccinctessaysonthemajorfiguresSorJuanaIn矇sdelaCruz,GabrielaMistral,C矇sarVallejo,PabloNeruda,CarlosDrummonddeAndrade,andOctavioPaz.PartIIIanalysesspecificanddistinctivetrendswithinthepoeticcanon,includingwomen’s,LGBT,Quechua,Afro-Hispanic,Latino/aandNewMediapoetry.ThisCompanionalsocontainsaguidetofurtherreadingaswellasanessayonthebestEnglishtranslationsofLatinAmericanpoetry.ItwillbeakeyresourceforstudentsandinstructorsofLatinAmericanliteratureandpoetry.
CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN POETRY Quechua
