The poetry of the Americas : from good neighbors to countercultures

Author(s)

• Feinsod, Harris

Bibliographic Information

The poetry of the Americas : from good neighbors to countercultures

Harris Feinsod

（Modernist literature & culture / Kevin J.H. Dettmar & Masrk Wollaeger, series editors）

Oxford University Press, c2017

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-390) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 Martin Adan, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Jose 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Illustrations A Note on the Text Introduction Hazarding the Poetry of the Americas The Poetry of the Americas: A Genealogy Integrationist Literary History Cultural Diplomacy from Good Neighbors to Countercultures Six Chapters in the Poetry of the Americas 1. Hemispheric Solidarities: Wartime Poetry and the Limits of the Good Neighbor The Office of the Coordinators of Inter-American Poetry Bridging the Hemisphere: Carrera Andrade's Hart Crane Minority Islands: Hughes, Frank, de Moraes, and the Poem of Racial Democracy Between Dissidence and Diplomacy: Neruda, Bishop, Burgos William Carlos Williams and the Ardor of Puerto Rico Lysander Kemp and the Gunboat Good Neighbor 2. A Xenoglossary for the Americas Foreign Words and Bloc Politics Steven's Lingua Franca et Jocundissima Post-Symbolists Lezama's Citations Borges and the Dawn of English 3. The Ruins of Inter-Americanism Privileged Observatories: A Midcentury Culture of Pre-Columbian Ruins Dead Mouths: Neruda at Machu Picchu Repossessed Dynamics: Olson and Barlow Among Stones Mechano Hells and Mayan Isms: Ginsberg, Lamantia, Cardenal Hidden Doors: Ferlinghetti and Adan at Machu Picchu 4. The New Inter-American Poetry Beats and Barbudos Blackburn, Cortazar and all the Village Cronopios The True Pan-American Union: Margaret Randall and El Corno Emplumado Transnational Martyrology: Heraud, Quena, Eshleman Neruda, Deep Image, and the Politics of Translation Manhattan Poems beyond the New York School 5. Questions of Anticommunism: Hemispheric Lyric in the 1960s Bishop's First Anticommunist Shudder Lowell's Imperial Phantasmagoria Walcott in the Gulf Padilla in Difficult Times Stations in the Gulf 6. Renga and Heteronymy: Cosmopolitan Poetics after 1967 Go Home, Octavio Paz! La Renga de Occidente Heteronyms and Literary History Notes Index

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Details

• NCID: BB25594267
• ISBN:
  • 9780190682002
• LCCN: 2017006327
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 413 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS323.5
  • DC23 : 811/.509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Latin American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Comparative literature -- American and Latin American
  • LCSH : Comparative literature -- Latin American and American
  • LCSH : American literature -- Appreciation -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Latin American literature -- Appreciation -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America
  • LCSH : Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88850295