Poetic Encounters in the Americas

Peter Ramos is an Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College

Remarkable Bridge is an important new examination of ways in which the act of translating other authors’ poetry can and does change the translator’s own poetic works. By focusing on the Latin American/United States connection, Ramos highlights the importance of cross-cultural influences between poets in both places, bringing to light previously unexplored confluences between poets such as James Wright and César Vallejo, Muriel Rukeyser and Octavio Paz, and Robert Lowell and Heberto Padilla. This book is essential reading for anyone interested not only in cross-cultural influences, translation studies, or comparative literature, but also in poetics and literary aesthetics in general. – Wendy Galgan, Ph.D., Saint Joseph’s College (Standish, Maine)

• Introduction: "Translation: Re-turning Toward an American Idiom"Chapter One: "Beyond the Deep Image: James Wright’s Vallejo and the Ethics of Translation"Chapter Two: "I Sing the Body Pan American: Whitman, Hughes, Neruda, and the Better Self"Chapter Three: "From the Mouths of Mothers: William Carlos Williams and Translation as Bochinche"Chapter Four: "Rukeyser, Bishop, and Paz: Writing Toward a Common, Beloved Mystery"Chapter Five: "Cuban Life Studies: Eliot, Lowell, Padilla, Lezama, and Tejada at Crux of the Anglo-Hispanic, Linear-Baroque"Conclusion: "Beyond Hegemony and Marginality: New American Canons"