Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times

This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms--coplas, d cimas, bombas--produced by anonymous writers. All are presented in English, contextualized and individually introduced by Roberto M rquez, a distinguished translator and literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495622
• ISBN13: 9781558495623
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher