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Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
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Paperback. Offers a comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry in English. This work includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers. Editor(s): Marquez, Roberto. Translator(s): Marquez, Roberto. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJP; DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 685.
This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers. All are presented in English, contextualized and individually introduced by Roberto Marquez, a distinguished translator and literary scholar. Book I, ""Before Columbus and After, 1400-1820,"" focuses on the foundational origins of Puerto Rican poetry and the clash of competing visions embodied in the rich and heterogeneous corpus of anonymous popular verse forms. Book ... Read more
This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers. All are presented in English, contextualized and individually introduced by Roberto Marquez, a distinguished translator and literary scholar. Book I, ""Before Columbus and After, 1400-1820,"" focuses on the foundational origins of Puerto Rican poetry and the clash of competing visions embodied in the rich and heterogeneous corpus of anonymous popular verse forms. Book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495623
SKU
V9781558495623
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Ref
99-15
About
ROBERTO MARQUEZ is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
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