Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry

Ben Bollig is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at the University of Oxford, UK.Jorge J. Locane is Professor of Literature and Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World at the University of Oslo, Norway.

"One of the distinctive features of poetry is that remarkable essays can be written about it, commensurate with the language and syntax they analyze. In this volume, Ben Bollig and Jorge J. Locane, two of the best and most rigorous thinkers of contemporary Latin American poetry, have brought together a group of critics of the same level of academic excellence. The results are phenomenal. It is an examination of writing trends and the formal and ideological options being considered in the poetry of our time. A crucible of analysis, information, and imaginative surveying, this book is ideally suited to enable poetry to continue speaking, even in a dimension beyond language."Eduardo Espina, author of The Milli Vanilli Condition: Essays on Culture in the New Millennium and Professor in Latin American Poetry, Texas A&M University, USA"Comprehensive, contemporary and discerning, this is a book on fire. The organising principle is magnificent: regions that include borders and migrants, tendencies that give equal space to the already visible and the newly emerging, and figures, all of whom are crucial. The three axes cross to create a moving constellation."Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor in Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, USA

• IntroductionPart I. Regions1 AMAZONIA: Contemporary Amazonian Poetry2 ANDEAN REGION: Andean Poetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Approach from Rewriting3 CENTRAL AMERICA: Four Contemporary Central American Poets4 SOUTHER CONE: “A Voice Similar to Its Opposite”: Latin American Southern Cone Poetry in the Twenty-First Century5 THE CARIBBEAN: Hispanic Caribbean Poetry in the Twenty-First Century6 US-MEXICO: In the Borders of Form. The Binational Aesthetics of Robin Myers and Violeta OrozcoExtraterritorialities7 GERMANY: Latin American Poetry in Germany. Poetic Practices across National Borders (2001 – 2024)8 SPAIN: “Mom is Non-Eu”: Twenty-First Century Latin American Poets in Spain9 UK: Poets in No-Man’s Land: Latin American Poets in the UK10 USA/New York: Identities, Institutions and Aesthetics: Spanish-Language Poetry in Early Twenty-First Century New York CityPart II. Tendencies11 Ancestral Traditions and Contemporary Poetry in Mexico’s Indigenous Languages12 Behind Closed Doors: Poetry by Prose Writers13 From Journals to Anthologies: Characteristics of a Twenty-First-Century Phenomenon14 Insolvent Poetry. Publishing Economics and the Avant-Garde in Latin America 15 Latin American Poetry and Biodiversity16 Music and Performance: Sense and Nonsense in Contemporary Chilean Poetry17 Of Anthems, Antennae, and Anthologies: Assessing Twenty-First Century Brazilian Poetry18 Outlines of Latin American Geopoetics: Territorio, tierra, texto, tejido19 Poetic Activism in Twenty-First Century Latin America20 Poetry, Orality and Performance in the Contemporary Maya World of Guatemala21 Poetry’s Apology for a Dystopian Future: On Drug Apology by Mario Verdugo22 Queering the Empire: Gender Diversity and Decoloniality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry23 The Staging of Language: Transhemispheric Convergences Between the Writers’ Forum in the UK and the Foro de Escritores in Chile24 This is (Not) a Poem: Belen Gache’s Errant Digital Poetics25 Tu aliento de bauxita. Tus brazos de amianto: Geological Subjectivities, Labor and Extractivism in Latin American Poetics of the MinePart III. Figures26 “Better Days / are Blooming Beneath the Sidewalk / Where I’m Walking.” Displacement, Poetry and Performance in Legna Rodríguez Iglesias’s Work27 From Dispossession to Healing: The Visionary Poetry of Adriana Paredes Pinda28 Grave Readings: The Illegible Lives of Frank Báez29 In the Bathtub with Angélica Freitas: A Poet of Dispute and Sharing30 Noise and Impersonal Memory in The Poetry of Andrés Anwandter31 On the Outskirts of Literature: The Dialogic and Critical Poetics of Sara Uribe32 On Verónica Gerber Bicecci: “Strange Fruits” and “Elusive Forms.” Politics and Poetics of Non-Belonging33 Poetry as a Shelter Language: Natalia Litvinova’s Inventive Nostalgia34 Sergio Raimondi: The Meaning of the Wor(l)d35 The Inaccessible Archive: The “Black Series” by Carlos Soto Román36 Wet Ontology and Mapuche Geomyths in Roxana Miranda Rupailaf37 Writing from the Hole: The Poetry of Luis Felipe Fabre