A brief but fitting tribute to the great Argentine poet Juan Gelman has been compiled by Paul Pines in a special edition of The Café Review
Categories: Argentina, South America
Tag: Poetry
Poetic irony
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An English-language debut for Homero Aridjis sits uncomfortably with the role of Vancouver in the assault on Mexico’s natural environment
Categories: Canada, Mexico, North America
A most Latin American Latino
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Poema establishes the Colombian-born Maurice Kilwein Guevara as the most ‘Latin American’ of Latino poets in the US, argues Francisco Aragón
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States
Urban experiment
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what i’m on by the Mexican-American Luis H. Valadez is a strong first book of poetry that defines a new urban poetics, says Oscar Bermeo
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
A life without boundaries
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Juan Felipe Herrera’s early life as the child of migrant workers has profoundly conditioned his work
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
A musical voice
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Naomi Ayala’s observations of marginal lives reveal sadness and stillness, yet through poetry gain optimism
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Narcissism and doubt
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It is hard to see past an arrogant, self-assured style in the first English translation of Estela Lamat’s work
Categories: Chile, South America
The Earth turned to bring us closer
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If an image is worth a thousand words, some of those will need to be read, not heard, to be fully understood. Montague Kobbe and Adolfo Calero explore poetry and the cinematic code
Categories: Mexico, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay
The mestizo medium
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Fusion and equilibrium are the principles on which the Chilean visual poet Sergio Pinto Briones has based his effervescent debut collection Barbaridades in Situ
Categories: Chile, South America
Poet’s corner: Jaime Valdivieso
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The radical poet and activist talks about an identity crisis in his native Chile, condemns racism against the Mapuche, and calls for Latin American unity
Categories: Chile, South America