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Article: Antologia de la poesia latinoamerica de vanguardia: 1916-1935.(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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The ambitious, densely packed Antologia de la poesia latinoamericana de vanguardia (1916-1935) presents a sampling of both the various Spanish American avant-gardes and contemporary Brazilian modernismo. The compiler, Mihai G. Grunfeld, has selected poems by fifty-five authors whose vanguardismo ranges from the early experiments of Vicente Huidobro to the mature, assured work of the Mexican Contemporaneos. Although the anthology reveals clearly the evolution of vanguardismo, the volume is not ordered chronologically. The poets are arranged by nationality, from Argentina to Venezuela, and then alphabetically by name within each national category. Grunfeld practices the art of ...