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The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

Feinsod, Harris

Paperback

Series: Modernist Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 019008099X
ISBN13: 9780190080990
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, José Lezama Lima, Pablo Neruda, Charles Olson, Octavio Paz, Heberto Padilla, Wallace Stevens, Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Feinsod reveals how poets of many nations imagined a poetry of the Americas that linked multiple cultures, even as it reflected the inequities of the inter-American political system. This account offers a rich contextual study of the state-sponsored institutions and the countercultural networks that sustained this poetry, from Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs to the mid-1960s avant-garde scene in Mexico City. This innovative literary-historical project enables new readings of such canonical poems as Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction and Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu, but it positions these alongside lesser known poetry, translations, anthologies, literary journals and private correspondences culled from library archives across the Americas. The Poetry of the Americas thus broadens the horizons of reception and mutual influence--and of formal, historical, and political possibility--through which we encounter midcentury American poetry, recasting traditional categories of U.S. or Latin American literature within a truly hemispheric vision.

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