Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Chapter 36 San Francisco and the Beats
- Chapter 37 The New York School
- Chapter 38 The Uses of Authenticity
- Chapter 39 James Merrill and His Circles
- Chapter 40 Science in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 41 The 1970s and the “Poetry of the Center”
- Chapter 42 Latino Poetry and Poetics
- Chapter 43 Asian American Poetry
- Chapter 44 Psychoanalytic Poetics
- Chapter 45 American Poetry of the 1980s
- Chapter 46 Black and Blues Configurations
- Chapter 47 Amy Clampitt, Culture Poetry, and the Neobaroque
- Chapter 48 Modern and Contemporary Children’s Poetry
- Chapter 49 Multilingualism in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 50 American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
Chapter 42 - Latino Poetry and Poetics
from Part IV - Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Chapter 36 San Francisco and the Beats
- Chapter 37 The New York School
- Chapter 38 The Uses of Authenticity
- Chapter 39 James Merrill and His Circles
- Chapter 40 Science in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 41 The 1970s and the “Poetry of the Center”
- Chapter 42 Latino Poetry and Poetics
- Chapter 43 Asian American Poetry
- Chapter 44 Psychoanalytic Poetics
- Chapter 45 American Poetry of the 1980s
- Chapter 46 Black and Blues Configurations
- Chapter 47 Amy Clampitt, Culture Poetry, and the Neobaroque
- Chapter 48 Modern and Contemporary Children’s Poetry
- Chapter 49 Multilingualism in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 50 American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
Summary
The term Latino guides the conversation toward more specific avenues of inquiry. The same process applies to an examination of Latino poetry and poetics. In the meantime, what's worth examining is how the three main U.S. Latino populations have shaped their respective literatures in order to come to terms with their identity, language, and history. Although their immigrant trajectories and political leanings are distinct, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American poetry communities have followed parallel journeys from marginalized voices to visible presences in twentieth-century American letters. In the Chicano community there is no dividing line between a poet and an activist. The relationship between the United States and its unincorporated territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, bears a long and conflicted history. Politically, the Chicano community has always expressed admiration for the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but maintains a conflicted opinion about its leader, Fidel Castro.
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- The Cambridge History of American Poetry , pp. 959 - 977Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014