An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo: In English Translation, with Spanish Text

by Kelly Washbourne (Translator), Sergio Waisman (Translator)

The poetic movement that was Spanish American modernismo ran from the early 1880s to 1916: it expressed the desire both to join universal literature―aesthetic modernity―and to break colonial ties with Spanish belles lettres. The new translations in this bilingual anthology, many of them first translations, present eighteen modernista poets from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Uruguay. This volume in the MLA series Texts and Translations is designed to provide the student of Spanish American literature with work not easily accessible in Spanish and English and to introduce modernismo, an often misunderstood movement, to a wider audience.

366 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2007

Reviews

[Michelle Hoogterp · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed these poems and poets. I do have 2 complaints with this collection: 1. when it offers only selections of a longer poem the editors don't tell you where in the poem it came from or if the sections of poetry on offer are taken from multiple places within the poem. 2. The definitions they offer for words are quite random. They offer definitions for Thor and Aphrodite when other words would stand a better translation or definition...