Latinx Poetics

Essays on the Art of Poetry

Ruben Quesada

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780826364395
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice. At the heart of this anthology lies the intersection of history, language, and the human experience. The collection explores the ways in which a people's history and language are vital to the development of a poet's imagination and insists that the meaning and value of poetry are necessary to understand the history and future of a people. The Latinx community is not a monolith, and accordingly the poets assembled here vary in style, language, and nationality. The pieces selected expose the depth of existing verse and scholarship by poets and scholars including Brenda Cárdenas, Daniel Borzutzky, Orlando Menes, and over a dozen more. The essays not only expand the poetic landscape but extend Latinx and Latin American linguistic and geographical boundaries. Writers, educators, and students will find awareness, purpose, and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind anthology.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword: The Mindful Space of Joyous Creation
• Introduction
• The Horse and Rider
• Poetry in Concert with the Visual Arts: Latinx Ekphrasis and Other Inter-arts Fusions
• What the Neoliberal Policy Labs Eat and Shit: Horrific Fables for a Specific Universe
• Glorious View: Landscapes of Memoria
• Peopleness: Ethnicity and the Latinx Poem
• My Latino Aesthetics. Or Not.
• An Afro-Latino’s Poetic and Creative Hungers
• Trauma and the Lyric
• La Desembocada: Healing the Wound That Never Heals
• Longing for a Language That Joins: Class Consciousness in Portuguese American Poetry
• Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Or, the Possibilities of a Contemporary US Latin@ Poetry
• How I Came to Identify as a Latina Writer
• A Graffiti Artist in Academia
• Puerto Rican Poetry and a State of Independence: A Family Affair
• Notes on Teaching and Learning the Mother Tongue
• Duende the Poem, or Poetics at the Intersection of Realities and Identities
• Testarudo: An Essay on My Poetic Vocation
• To Have and Have Not: Uncovering the Cultural Identity in Twenty-First-Century Portuguese American Literature
• Invention as Discovery: An Essay on Latino/a Poetics
• Notes on Writing Poetry and the Function of Language
• Stealing the Crown
• Knocking on Heaven’s Couplets: The Nature and Function of Poesía
• Contributors
• Index