The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth Century Poetry of Latin America

by David Treece and Mike Gonzalez

Book Overview

During the last hundred years, the private and public voices of Latin American poetry have offered a wealth of imaginative responses to the region's social and political experiences. In the face of capitalist modernization, dictatorship and imperialist domination, poets have fought back. The Gathering of Voices argues that the best of Latin American poetry has set out to rediscover its roots in local experience and to enter a dialogue with the "ordinary"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860913694
• ISBN13: 9780860913696
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary