...J. Homer Herriott Poem of the Cid . Translation by Merwin W. S. . New York , 1960 . Las Americas Publishing Company . Pp. 311 . Cloth , $5.00 . Paper , $2.50 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 In the Preface the translator presents a concise lucid biography...

... lord, tecuhtli or lady, cihuatl . The method is declared to be “structuralist.” In practice this means a commendably detailed exegesis of the metaphoric organization of a single twenty-seven-line Zotzil poem from Zinacantan, Chiapas, focusing on the figure of the hummingbird, and dealing...

... . Pp. 134 . $0.75 .) An Annotated Bibliography of the Poems and Pamphlets of J. J. Fernández de Lizardi: the First and Second Periods (1808-1823) . Edited with an introduction and notes by Radin Paul . [ Occasional Papers, Mexican History Series, No. 2, Part I in 2 .] ( San Francisco...

...Pamela S. Murray Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal with a Selection of Her Poems . By Weaver Kathleen . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2009 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. xiv , 309 pp. Cloth , $64.00 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University...

... with his own sound judgments. His study carries to the year 1967 and, thus, does not encompass the new poems of Belitt’s edition. (The latter poems, it should be noted, do not appreciably alter the image of the poet that has been gradually revealed to us over the space of a full half-century.) While...

...Gemma R. Del Duca, S. C. ¡Patria o Muerte! The Great Zoo and Other Poems . By Guillén Nicolás . Translated and Edited by Márquez Robert . New York , 1972 . Monthly Review Press . Pp. 223 . Cloth. $8.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 This volume...

...Charles W. Macune, Jr. Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry . By Limón José E. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 219 pp. Cloth , $38.00 . Paper , $15.00...

... Salmon’s fine introduction suggests, this ample, bilingual edition brings together Cardenal’s volume Homenaje a los indios americanos (1969) and, it is claimed, all his other Indian-centered poems to constitute the most complete presentation of his treatment of the theme in a single volume...

...G.S. The translator endeavors to steer a middle course between literary translation and poetical paraphrase. The results are mixed: some poems are felicitously rendered, while others are stiff and graceless, sprinkled with unfortunate archaisms (“thou” and “thy”). A pioneer work...

...Percy Alvin Martin The Modernist Trend in Spanish-American Poetry. Collection of Representative Poems of the Modernist Movement and the Reaction . Translated into English Verse with a Commentary by Craig G. Dundas . ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1934 . Pp. xii , 347...

...Stanley R. Ross Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Anthology MCC 1956. Studies, essays and poems by faculty members of Mexico City College, presented as a contribution to the Seventh Mexican Book Fair . Foreword by Murray Paul V. . Mexico City , 1956 . Mexico City...

... . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Historia de la nueva México is an epic poem written by Gaspar de Villagrá, a criollo from Puebla, Mexico, which was published in 1610 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. It recounts the story of the expedition led by Juan de Oñate that established the first...

...María Gembero-Ustárroz Eichmann’s thorough editorial work is of interest not only for philologists and musicologists, but also for practical musicians, as can be shown with an example. The villancico ¡Ah de la obscura, funesta prisión! (poem no. 58, pp. 310 – 14) by the Spanish composer Juan...

... El estrecho dudoso , an epic poem originally published in 1966, is here presented in a bilingual edition, preceded by an informative preliminary study by Tamara Williams and supplemented with a useful glossary. The poem, consisting of 25 cantos, narrates the history of the conquest of Central...

... and dedicated it to the Empress Doña Isabel. The manuscript slumbered in the National Library of Austria until a faulty and incomplete version came out in 1848. That edition recognized the poem as a significant document of the Conquest but briefly dismissed its artistic nature as an early, crude “rhymed...

... of Durão, presented at the end of the volume, Barros transcribes the favorable opinions of literary critics about the poem. 61 Barros, O Caramuru , 10, 11. Interestingly, Barros states that “the three founding ethnic elements” of the Brazilian population are present in Caramuru. 62 Ibid...

... of us a taste of the work itself, he provides about one hundred pages of selected verses. All this is complemented with excellent indexes. While focusing on events in northern South America, Castellanos’ poem also comments on activities elsewhere in the hemisphere. Yet his fame rests as much...

...Maureen Ahern A significant social as well as literary testimonial, this anthology is an essential reader in the relationship between art and society in Latin America in this century. Special mention must be made of the exceptional quality of the translations. The poems read as poems...

... 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 This edition and new translation of Sor Juana’s reply to the bishop of Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, along with a translation of some of her poems, begins with a preface that emphasizes the complex feminism of the reply itself, comparing it with other...