The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry brings together internationally recognised experts to offer a fresh and urgent perspective on Latin America's contemporary poetry and the culture and politics of the region in the last twenty-five years.

Ben Bollig is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at the University of Oxford, UK. Jorge J. Locane is Professor of Literature and Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Introduction Part I. Regions 1 AMAZONIA: Contemporary Amazonian Poetry 2 ANDEAN REGION: Andean Poetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Approach from Rewriting 3 CENTRAL AMERICA: Four Contemporary Central American Poets 4 SOUTHER CONE: "A Voice Similar to Its Opposite": Latin American Southern Cone Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 5 THE CARIBBEAN: Hispanic Caribbean Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 6 US-MEXICO: In the Borders of Form. The Binational Aesthetics of Robin Myers and Violeta Orozco Extraterritorialities 7 GERMANY: Latin American Poetry in Germany. Poetic Practices across National Borders (2001 - 2024) 8 SPAIN: "Mom is Non-Eu": Twenty-First Century Latin American Poets in Spain 9 UK: Poets in No-Man's Land: Latin American Poets in the UK 10 USA/New York: Identities, Institutions and Aesthetics: Spanish-Language Poetry in Early Twenty-First Century New York City Part II. Tendencies 11 Ancestral Traditions and Contemporary Poetry in Mexico's Indigenous Languages 12 Behind Closed Doors: Poetry by Prose Writers 13 From Journals to Anthologies: Characteristics of a Twenty-First-Century Phenomenon 14 Insolvent Poetry. Publishing Economics and the Avant-Garde in Latin America 15 Latin American Poetry and Biodiversity 16 Music and Performance: Sense and Nonsense in Contemporary Chilean Poetry 17 Of Anthems, Antennae, and Anthologies: Assessing Twenty-First Century Brazilian Poetry 18 Outlines of Latin American Geopoetics: Territorio, tierra, texto, tejido 19 Poetic Activism in Twenty-First Century Latin America 20 Poetry, Orality and Performance in the Contemporary Maya World of Guatemala 21 Poetry's Apology for a Dystopian Future: On Drug Apology by Mario Verdugo 22 Queering the Empire: Gender Diversity and Decoloniality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry 23 The Staging of Language: Transhemispheric Convergences Between the Writers' Forum in the UK and the Foro de Escritores in Chile 24 This is (Not) a Poem: Belen Gache's Errant Digital Poetics 25 Tu aliento de bauxita. Tus brazos de amianto: Geological Subjectivities, Labor and Extractivism in Latin American Poetics of the Mine Part III. Figures 26 "Better Days / are Blooming Beneath the Sidewalk / Where I'm Walking." Displacement, Poetry and Performance in Legna Rodríguez Iglesias's Work 27 From Dispossession to Healing: The Visionary Poetry of Adriana Paredes Pinda 28 Grave Readings: The Illegible Lives of Frank Báez 29 In the Bathtub with Angélica Freitas: A Poet of Dispute and Sharing 30 Noise and Impersonal Memory in The Poetry of Andrés Anwandter 31 On the Outskirts of Literature: The Dialogic and Critical Poetics of Sara Uribe 32 On Verónica Gerber Bicecci: "Strange Fruits" and "Elusive Forms." Politics and Poetics of Non-Belonging 33 Poetry as a Shelter Language: Natalia Litvinova's Inventive Nostalgia 34 Sergio Raimondi: The Meaning of the Wor(l)d 35 The Inaccessible Archive: The "Black Series" by Carlos Soto Román 36 Wet Ontology and Mapuche Geomyths in Roxana Miranda Rupailaf 37 Writing from the Hole: The Poetry of Luis Felipe Fabre