A history of Mexican poetry

Covering Mexican literary history from pre-Columbian literature to the twenty-first-century, including works from Greater Mexico, this book is the most comprehensive study on Mexican poetry available in English. It examines key authors, such as Bernando de Balbuena, Juana de Asbaje, Ramón López Velarde, José Gorostiza, and Octavio Paz, and considers how they should be read today. Individual chapters focus on important movements, poetic forms, and topics, such as epics, lyric poetry, romanticism, modernism, poetry and performance, poetry in indigenous languages, Mexican American and Chicanx poetry, and the relationship between Mexican literature and gender. This book provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry, its institutions and its main authors for students and scholars in any discipline connected to the subject. •One of the most comprehensive studies on Mexican poetry available in English •Provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry and an overview of the important authors, movements, poetic forms, and topics in this area •Includes chapters on areas that are often understudied including the poetry of Greater Mexico (which includes Mexican American and Chicano Production), literature in indigenous languages, the relationship between Mexican literature and gender, and the connections between Mexican poetry with performance.