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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

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Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePoetry of the Americas : from Good Neighbors to Countercultures

Publication Year2017

SubjectComparative Literature, International Relations / General, Poetry

TypeTextbook

AuthorHarris Feinsod

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science

SeriesModernist Literature and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight27.1 Oz

Item Length6.2 in

Item Width9.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-006327

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Geopolitical feelings, both institutional and self-expansive, are the subject of this first-rate inter-American literary history. Harris Feinsod animates episodes in the ambassadorship of poetic forms infused with optimism and misgiving about integrationist desires, diplomacy, and poetics. Genealogical lines connect in tropes of pre-conquest ruins that serve as allegories about inter-Americanism; collaborative poems mirror the assemblage of political and economic alignments in the hemisphere; and at the heart of this book is the landmark example of Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragn's avant-garde journal El corno emplumado. Here at last are the archives and arguments to endorse contemporary practitioners for whom a poetry of the Americas has long been a drive and aspiration." --Roberto Tejada, University of Houston "The Poetry of the Americas is a field-changing book. Recovering a lost literary project of inter-American poetic conversation, Harris Feinsod disrupts our sense of the boundaries of 'American poetry' and obliges us to rethink stale period markers. His work allows us to re-evaluate poems we thought we knew, and to be stunned by poems we didn't know we should: in his readings, many energies - cosmopolitan; imperialist and anti-imperialist; communist and anti-communist - all mix and mingle through the medium of the contradictory ideal of 'the Americas.' It is a triumph of historical research, and a miracle of cross-linguistic reading." --Christopher Nealon, John Hopkins University, "The only thing more impressive than the scope and extent of Feinsod's research...is its readerly agility..... [It] makes a series of timely, indelible interventions into fields both overlapping and adjacent.... The result is a groundbreaking and immediately indispensable work at the intersection of poetic and cultural history." --Tobias Huttner, Critical Inquiry "Geopolitical feelings, both institutional and self-expansive, are the subject of this first-rate inter-American literary history. Harris Feinsod animates episodes in the ambassadorship of poetic forms infused with optimism and misgiving about integrationist desires, diplomacy, and poetics. Genealogical lines connect in tropes of pre-conquest ruins that serve as allegories about inter-Americanism; collaborative poems mirror the assemblage of political and economic alignments in the hemisphere; and at the heart of this book is the landmark example of Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragón's avant-garde journal El corno emplumado. Here at last are the archives and arguments to endorse contemporary practitioners for whom a poetry of the Americas has long been a drive and aspiration." --Roberto Tejada, University of Houston "The Poetry of the Americas is a field-changing book. Recovering a lost literary project of inter-American poetic conversation, Harris Feinsod disrupts our sense of the boundaries of 'American poetry' and obliges us to rethink stale period markers. His work allows us to re-evaluate poems we thought we knew, and to be stunned by poems we didn't know we should: in his readings, many energies - cosmopolitan; imperialist and anti-imperialist; communist and anti-communist - all mix and mingle through the medium of the contradictory ideal of 'the Americas.' It is a triumph of historical research, and a miracle of cross-linguistic reading." --Christopher Nealon, John Hopkins University, Geopolitical feelings, both institutional and self-expansive, are the subject of this first-rate inter-American literary history. Harris Feinsod animates episodes in the ambassadorship of poetic forms infused with optimism and misgiving about integrationist desires, diplomacy, and poetics. Genealogical lines connect in tropes of pre-conquest ruins that serve as allegories about inter-Americanism; collaborative poems mirror the assemblage of political and economicalignments in the hemisphere; and at the heart of this book is the landmark example of Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragns avant-garde journal El corno emplumado. Here at last are the archives and arguments to endorse contemporary practitioners for whom a poetry of the Americas has long been a driveand aspiration., "Articulating the far-flung hemispheric coordinates of the poetry of the Americas has, until Harris Feinsod's highly anticipated book, proved too challenging. ...[In] his exceptional literary history... some of the his archival finds are indeed world-reshaping, for the poetry world, but also for cultural histories of World War II, the Cold War, and the Sixties... The Poetry of the Americas has a fine-tuned critical style.... unsettling, wise, and strangely entertaining." --Michael Dowdy, Modernism/modernity "Feinsod masterfully tells an overarching story of the entwined development of the poetry of the Americas and the "modern inter-American political system" through poems and their archives - a story that is impressively wide-ranging in its geography, contents, forms, protagonists, and antagonists... Feinsod's rare ability to illuminate fine detail and then to make it speak to the personally intimate and globally public with equal verve is admirable. Both for the arguments it makes and for the archives it opens in making them, Poetry of the Americas is a title that will find influence in ways that eluded many of its subjects." --Gayle Rogers, Contemporary Literature "Feinsod's book has earned excellent reviews for a reason; the energy and erudition he brings to his project, the cross-lingual readings and historical nuance are impressive, and make his book a delight to read... an invigorating map tracing a fresh route into Stevens's inter-Americanism." --Jason D. Stevens, Wallace Stevens Journal "The only thing more impressive than the scope and extent of Feinsod's research...is its readerly agility..... [It] makes a series of timely, indelible interventions into fields both overlapping and adjacent.... The result is a groundbreaking and immediately indispensable work at the intersection of poetic and cultural history." --Tobias Huttner, Critical Inquiry "Geopolitical feelings, both institutional and self-expansive, are the subject of this first-rate inter-American literary history. Harris Feinsod animates episodes in the ambassadorship of poetic forms infused with optimism and misgiving about integrationist desires, diplomacy, and poetics. Genealogical lines connect in tropes of pre-conquest ruins that serve as allegories about inter-Americanism; collaborative poems mirror the assemblage of political and economic alignments in the hemisphere; and at the heart of this book is the landmark example of Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragón's avant-garde journal El corno emplumado. Here at last are the archives and arguments to endorse contemporary practitioners for whom a poetry of the Americas has long been a drive and aspiration." --Roberto Tejada, University of Houston "The Poetry of the Americas is a field-changing book. Recovering a lost literary project of inter-American poetic conversation, Harris Feinsod disrupts our sense of the boundaries of 'American poetry' and obliges us to rethink stale period markers. His work allows us to re-evaluate poems we thought we knew, and to be stunned by poems we didn't know we should: in his readings, many energies - cosmopolitan; imperialist and anti-imperialist; communist and anti-communist - all mix and mingle through the medium of the contradictory ideal of 'the Americas.' It is a triumph of historical research, and a miracle of cross-linguistic reading." --Christopher Nealon, John Hopkins University

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Dewey Decimal811.509

Table Of ContentForewordAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsA Note on the TextIntroduction Hazarding the Poetry of the AmericasThe Poetry of the Americas: A GenealogyIntegrationist Literary HistoryCultural Diplomacy from Good Neighbors to CounterculturesSix Chapters in the Poetry of the Americas1. Hemispheric Solidarities: Wartime Poetry and the Limits of the Good Neighbor The Office of the Coordinators of Inter-American PoetryBridging the Hemisphere: Carrera Andrade's Hart CraneMinority Islands: Hughes, Frank, de Moraes, and the Poem of Racial DemocracyBetween Dissidence and Diplomacy: Neruda, Bishop, BurgosWilliam Carlos Williams and the Ardor of Puerto RicoLysander Kemp and the Gunboat Good Neighbor 2. A Xenoglossary for the Americas Foreign Words and Bloc PoliticsSteven's Lingua Franca et JocundissimaPost-SymbolistsLezama's CitationsBorges and the Dawn of English 3. The Ruins of Inter-Americanism Privileged Observatories: A Midcentury Culture of Pre-Columbian RuinsDead Mouths: Neruda at Machu PicchuRepossessed Dynamics: Olson and Barlow Among StonesMechano Hells and Mayan Isms: Ginsberg, Lamantia, CardenalHidden Doors: Ferlinghetti and Adán at Machu Picchu4. The New Inter-American Poetry Beats and BarbudosBlackburn, Cortázar and all the Village CronopiosThe True Pan-American Union: Margaret Randall and El Corno EmplumadoTransnational Martyrology: Heraud, Quena, EshlemanNeruda, Deep Image, and the Politics of TranslationManhattan Poems beyond the New York School5. Questions of Anticommunism: Hemispheric Lyric in the 1960sBishop's First Anticommunist ShudderLowell's Imperial PhantasmagoriaWalcott in the GulfPadilla in Difficult TimesStations in the Gulf6. Renga and Heteronymy: Cosmopolitan Poetics after 1967 Go Home, Octavio Paz!La Renga de OccidenteHeteronyms and Literary HistoryNotesIndex

SynopsisThe 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 LezamaLima, 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 linkedmultiple 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 SupremeFiction" 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 libraryarchives 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., 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 Martn Adn, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, JosLezama 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., The Poetry of the Americas provides an expansive history of relations between poets in the US and Latin America over three decades, from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II to 1960s Cold War cultural policy., 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., 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 Mart n Ad n, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Jos 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.

LC Classification NumberPS323.5.F45 2017