Summary: Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 REVBolaño, Roberto
Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOLWalker, Alice
Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WALCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WALNeruda, Pablo
Summary: A collection of poems by Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, that celebrates the carpenters, longshoremen, blacksmiths, and other laborers he admired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERGuillén, Jorge
Summary: Jorge Guillen, one of the great poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the U.S. and in Latin America. This far ranging selection of poems provides fresh insights into our shared culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GUINeruda, Pablo
Summary: "First complete English-language publication of 10 songs published nearly four decades ago (see HLAS 28:2152) in which the great Chilean laureate explores 'landscapes of the heart and mind.' Competent translations in a bilingual edition. Lacks both an introduction and translator's note"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Latin American Literary Review Press 1996