The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry

Introduction 

Ben Bollig and Jorge J. Locane

PART I. Regions

1 Contemporary Amazonian Poetry 

Juan Carlos Galeano

2 Andean Poetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Approach From Rewriting 

Biviana Hernández Ojeda and Francisco Simon Salinas

3 Four Contemporary Central American Poets

Carlos F. Grigsby

4 "A Voice Similar to Its Opposite": Latin American Southern Cone Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 

Sara Bosoer

5 Hispanic Caribbean Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 

Nicole Roberts

On the Borders of Form: The Binational Aesthetics of Robin Myers and Violeta Orozco 

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Extraterritorialities

7 Latin American Poetry in Germany: Poetic Practices Across National Borders (2001–2024) 

Douglas Pompeu

8 "Mom Is Non-EU": Twenty-First-Century Latin American Poets in Spain 

Benito del Pliego

9 Poets in No-Man’s-Land: Latin American Poets in the UK 

Enrique D. Zattara

10 Identities, Institutions, and Aesthetics: Spanish-Language Poetry in Early-Twenty-First-Century New York City 

John Burns

PART II. Tendencies

11 Between Past and Present: Poetry in Mexico’s Indigenous Languages Today 

Jacobo Sefamí

12 Behind Closed Doors: Poetry by Prose Writers 

Jorge J. Locane

13 From Journals to Anthologies: Characteristics of a Twenty-First- Century Phenomenon 

Edgardo Dobry

14 Insolvent Poetry: Publishing Economics and the Avant-Garde in Latin America 

Ana Gallego Cuiñas

15 Latin American Poetry and Biodiversity

Niall Binns

16 Music and Performance: Sense and Nonsense in Contemporary Chilean Poetry 

Rachel Robinson

17 Of Anthems, Antennae, and Anthologies: Assessing Twenty-First- Century Brazilian Poetry 

Charles A. Perrone

18 Outlines of Latin American Geopoetics: Territorio, Tierra, Texto, Tejido 

Rike Bolte

19 Poetic Activism in Twenty-First-Century Latin America 

Marloes Mekenkamp

20 Poetry, Orality, and Performance in the Contemporary Maya World of Guatemala

Michela Craveri

21 Poetry’s Apology for a Dystopian Future: On Drug Apology, by Mario Verdugo 

Matías Moscardi

22 Queering the Empire: Gender and Decoloniality in Twenty-First- Century Latin American Poetry 

Ethel Barja

23 The Staging of Language: Transhemispheric Convergences Between the Writers’ Forum in the UK and the Foro de Escritores in Chile 

Juan Orrego Puga and Jèssica Pujol Duran

24 This Is (Not) a Poem: Belen Gache’s Errant Digital Poetics 

Julio Prieto

25 Tu aliento de bauxita, tus brazos de amianto: Geological Subjectivities, Labour, and Extractivism in Latin American Mining Poetics 

Azucena Castro

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 

Irina Garbatzky

27 From Dispossession to Healing: The Visionary Poetry of Adriana Paredes Pinda 

Martina Bortignon

28 Grave Readings: The Illegible Lives of Frank Báez 

Erika Martínez

29 In the Bathtub With Angélica Freitas: A Poet of Dispute and Sharing 

Luciana di Leone and Juliana de Assis Beraldo

30 Noise and Impersonal Memory in the Poetry of Andrés Anwandter 

José Ignacio Padilla

31 On the Outskirts of Literature: The Dialogic and Critical Poetics of Sara Uribe 

Roberto Cruz Arzabal

32 On Verónica Gerber Bicecci: "Strange Fruits" and "Elusive Forms" – Politics and Poetics of Non-Belonging 

Esperanza López Parada

33 Poetry as a Shelter Language: Natalia Litvinova’s Inventive Nostalgia

Daniela Camozzi

34 Sergio Raimondi: Reading the Wor(l)d 

Ben Bollig

35 The Inaccessible Archive: The "Black Series", by Carlos Soto Román 

Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo

36 Wet Ontology and Mapuche Geomyths in Roxana Miranda Rupailaf 

Paula Miranda

37 Writing From the Hole: The Poetry of Luis Felipe Fabre

Erika Martínez

Biography

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.

"One of the distinctive features of poetry is that remarkable essays can be written about it, commensurate with the language and syntax they analyze. In this volume, Ben Bollig and Jorge J. Locane, two of the best and most rigorous thinkers of contemporary Latin American poetry, have brought together a group of critics of the same level of academic excellence. The results are phenomenal. It is an examination of writing trends and the formal and ideological options being considered in the poetry of our time. A crucible of analysis, information, and imaginative surveying, this book is ideally suited to enable poetry to continue speaking, even in a dimension beyond language."

Eduardo Espina, author of The Milli Vanilli Condition: Essays on Culture in the New Millennium and Professor in Latin American Poetry, Texas A&M University, USA

"Comprehensive, contemporary and discerning, this is a book on fire. The organising principle is magnificent: regions that include borders and migrants, tendencies that give equal space to the already visible and the newly emerging, and figures, all of whom are crucial. The three axes cross to create a moving constellation."

Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor in Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, USA