Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art

Anne Day Dewey is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus, where she also coordinates the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Her research focuses on poetry, gender, and ethnicity in post-1945 US literature.Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her research interests include Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Studies, in particular, issues of vulnerability and precarity.José Rodríguez Herrera is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), where he also coordinates the Film and Literature Master’s degree. His main areas of research focus on poetry, film adaptations, and translation studies.

• Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 7Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 9Anne Day Dewey, Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández,and José Manuel Rodríguez HerreraIntroduction: Reflecting on the Legacy of the Pan- American- Spanish Axes of Cultural Influence ...................................................................................... 11Part I Transatlantic Axis of Influence ..................................................... 27Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez1. Poeta Más Allá de Nueva York: Federico García Lorca’s Presence in Contemporary Chicanø Literature ........................................................................ 29José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera2. “Oh Lorca, Lorca — / shining singer:” William Carlos Williams in Dialogue with Federico García Lorca’s Romances ............................................... 57Jessica Q. Stark3. Social Estrangement and Urban Eroticism in the New York Poetry of Frank O’Hara and Federico García Lorca ............................................................. 79Ángeles Alemán Gómez (translated by Belén Cornejo- Daza)4. The Yellow Kimono: Retrato de Federico García Lorca by Gregorio Toledo . 93Laura Hartmann- Villalta5. Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War’s Legacy in the 20th Century ................ 117Part II Pan- American Axis of Influence .............................................. 135Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez6. The Mexican Connection: Covarrubias, de Zayas, and Tamayo in NewYork 1920– 1945 ...................................................................................................... 137Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández7. Some Notes on the Spanish and Latin American Cultural Traditionsin the Poetics of Denise Levertov ......................................................................... 159Anne Day Dewey8. Mexico as Site of Gender Critique in Contemporary US Women’sPoetry: Denise Levertov’s Life in the Forest in Context ..................................... 181Leonor María Martínez Serrano9. Mark Strand and Octavio Paz: The Universality of Poetry, or aFriendship in Translation ...................................................................................... 203Coda ....................................................................................................................... 225José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera, Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez,Anne Day Dewey, and Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández10. Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera ............................................................... 227List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 235Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................... 237Index ........................................................................................................................ 241