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Verbal Society: Poetry and Poets at the End of the Twentieth Century

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UNDERSTANDING OCTAVIO PAZ. By QuirogaJosé. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $29.95 cloth.)

FROM ART TO POLITICS: OCTAVIO PAZ AND THE PURSUIT OF FREEDOM. By GrenierYvon. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. Pp. 152. $29.95 cloth.)

NERUDA'S EKPHRASTIC EXPERIENCE: MURAL ART AND CANTO GENERAL. By Méndez-RamírezHugo. (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 1999. Pp. 244. $43.50 cloth.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Jill S. Kuhnheim*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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Copyright © 2003 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Neruda's continued, though changing, cultural relevance is evidenced by the essays in the Teresa Longo's recently published collection Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry (New York and London: Routledge, 2002).

2. John Felstiner, Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1980).

3. Originally published in Mexico in 1950 by both Comité Auspiciador and Ediciones Océano.

4. This phrase comes from Diane Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom's introduction to the collection Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985).

5. Although references in Spanish or from Anglo-American sources predominate.

6. The concept of poetry as a “category of understanding” comes from the conclusion of Joe Harrington's recent book on contemporary North American poetry, Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2002).