Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Don’t Light the Flower

Ajens, A.

This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-10-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349296842

DOI: 10.1057/9780230370678

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 178