Puerto Rican Poetry
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anonymous folk poetry
anticolonial cultural expression
bilingual verse collections
biographical notes on poets
bomba verse lineage
broad survey of Caribbean verse
Caribbean diaspora aesthetics
Caribbean oral-to-written traditions
Caribbean poetic traditions
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collective memory in verse
coplas and decima traditions
Creole cultural formation
cross-hemispheric literary networks
cultural diversity in island lit
cultural hybridity in literature
cultural resistance through poetry
diasporic Puerto Rican writers
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evolving Caribbean aesthetics
expansive anthology of Caribbean writers
historical layers of identity
historical timeline of the island
Indigenous and colonial influences
Indigenous survivals in verse
island cultural identity
island history in poetic form
island social history in verse
Latin American literary ties
Latino literature in the U.S.
layered visions of Puerto Ricanness
literary expression of community
mainland Latino literary currents
mid-century cultural critique
modern Caribbean lyricism
multicultural Caribbean voices
multilingual poetic engagement
nationhood through literature
poetic imagination across centuries
poetic innovation across eras
poetic responses to empire
popular oral forms
postwar poetic movements
Puerto Rican artistic evolution
Puerto Rican literary heritage
shifting definitions of identity
sociopolitical context for poets
Spanish-language poetic lineage
twentieth-century cultural renewal
U.S.-Caribbean historical ties
voices from diverse generations
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495623
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2006
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 II, ""The Creole Matrix: Notions of Nation, 1821-1950s,"" concentrates on the period in which a distinctively Puerto Rican consciousness emerged and the island's subsequent experience as a U.S. colony in the decades after the Spanish-Cuban-American War up to formal establishment of Commonwealth status. Books III and IV are devoted, respectively, to the era of insular ""Critique, Revolt, and Renewal"" in the mid-twentieth century, and to the ""New Creoles, New Definitions"" that developed in the late twentieth century, including the distinct and parallel growth of Puerto Rican poetry in the mainland United States. In addition to a general introduction and concise biographical profiles of each poet, Marquez provides a detailed ""Chronology"" of the history of the island that has shaped the poets and informed their work. The resulting volume is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Puerto Rican literature and the heterogeneous society in which it has been produced.
ROBERTO MARQUEZ is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
