Framing the Word
The Crowning of a Poet's Quest (Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in) (Cross/Cultures, #108)
by Paola Loreto
This first extended study of Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (2000) defines the book as the culmination of the poetry and poetic of the Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner. In this long poem, Walcott achieves three goals pursued throughout his career: to develop an original Caribbean aesthetic; to meld the modes of poetry and prose; and to formulate the Bildung of the island-artist in terms of an 'autobiographical' narrative. The analysis provides an aesthetic and cultural evaluation of the...
Las Flores del Mal (Ilustrados (Hardcover), #4) (Letras Mayusculas)
by Charles Baudelaire
Praises & Offenses (Lannan Translations Selection) (Lannan Translations Selections)
by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Nunez, Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo, and A Cartagena Portalatin
As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in the modern-day Dominican Republic. Translator Judith Kerman, who began the anthology as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, notes that "contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most underse...
La Pasion Del Obstaculo - Poemas Y Cartas De Juana Borrero
by Francisco Moran
