Countersong to Walt Whitman & Other Poems
Author | : Pedro Mir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780963236333 |
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Author | : Pedro Mir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780963236333 |
Author | : Pedro Mir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781885214348 |
Author | : Pedro Mir |
Publisher | : Caribbean Modern Classics |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2017-12-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781845233563 |
Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book-length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s: "Countersong to Walt Whitman"; "There Is a Country in the World"; "If Somebody Wants to Know Which Is My Country"; "To the Battleship Intrepid"; "Not One Step Back"; "Amen to Butterflies"; "Concerto of Hope for the Left Hand"; "Meditation on the Shores of Evening." The introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of Caribbean Poetics (Peepal Tree Press), and foreword by Jean Franco, author of Cruel Modernity (Duke University Press), enable a broader appreciation for the personal context and general impact of Mir's work. A selected bibliography of works by and about the poet, including an accounting of the prose he has published as a novelist, author of short stories, essayist, and historian, provides readers with ample resources for further appreciation of Mir's achievement. In his introduction, Torres-Saillant emphasizes: "The present bilingual edition . . . will give both Spanish- and English-speaking readers . . . the opportunity to recognize themselves in the poetic visage of one of the most authentic literary artists to have come from the Caribbean." About the first publication, Roberto M�rquez stated in the Village Voice: "The publication, in bilingual format, of this first book-length anthology of work by the Dominican Republic's internationally acclaimed and locally celebrated National Poet is an event--long anticipated, too long delayed. . . . Colleague, contemporary, and the equal in lyric vitality, epic ambition, and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicol�s Guill�n, Mir remains, with Martinique's Aim� C�saire, perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets. . . . [Mir's] poetry achieves a rare, exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics, of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama, the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America, its landscape, peoples, and societies."
Author | : Rafael Bernabe |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004462740 |
Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban writer and revolutionary José Martí; Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James, and Dominican poet Pedro Mir.
Author | : Jim |
Publisher | : Holy Cow! Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2014-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0985981865 |
A monumental gathering of writings by over 60 authors (from Emerson to Rudolfo Anaya) that traces Whitman's continuing influence on world literature. Revised second edition.
Author | : Didier Tisdel Jaén |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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Author | : Harris Feinsod |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190682000 |
"This book narrates exchanges between English- and Spanish-language poets in the American hemisphere from the late 1930s through the rise of the 1960s. It doing so, it contributes to a crucial current of humanistic inquiry: the effort to write a cosmopolitan literary history adequate to the age of globalization. Building on correspondence and manuscripts from collections in Europe and the Americas, the book first traces the material contours of an evolving literary network that exceeds the conventional model of "the two Americas." These relations depend on changing contexts: an era of state-sponsored transnationalism, from the wartime intensification of Good Neighbor diplomacy, to the Cold War cultural policy programs of the Alliance for Progress in the 1960s; a prosperous market for translations of Latin American poetry in the US; and a growing alternative print sphere of bilingual vanguard journals such as El Corno Emplumado (Mexico City, 1962-1969). As the book articulates these histories of exchange, it also theorizes how poets employ the resources of language to transform popular images of the hemisphere from a locus of political conflict into a venue of supranational cultural citizenship. Feinsod describes how inter-Americanism was enacted through diplomatic structures of literary address, multilingual writing, and appeals to a shared indigenous heritage through the genre of the meditation on ruins. By tracing the coevolution of midcentury poetry with the geopolitics of the hemisphere, the book expands existing literary histories of the period through revelatory comparative readings supported by archival findings"--
Author | : Carlota Caulfield |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781855661394 |
A panorama of literature by Latinos, whether born or resident in the United States.
Author | : Edward J. Carvalho |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2014-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611476429 |
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background information on the poet’s life and work; offering an examination into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate through several theoretical frames—from Espada’s attention to resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class consciousness grounded in labor rights—Acknowledged Legislator offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the poet’s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we read Espada, now and in the future.
Author | : Robert W. Snyder |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801455170 |
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.