Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Ayendy Bonifacio (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. He writes and teaches about American literature and culture, Latinx studies, and print culture from the nineteenth-century to the present. His writing is published in American Periodicals, Prose Studies, American Literary Realism, The New York Times, Slate, ASAP/Journal, J19, The Black Scholar and other scholarly and public-facing venues.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Poetics of Paratextuality1. Poetess as Paratext: Lydia H. Sigourney and Alice Cary in the New York Ledger2. Reprint Poems in Francisco P. Ramírez’s El Clamor Público3. The Reprint Lives of "Panic Poetry"4. The Epitextual Sites of Cholera Poems5. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in Puerto Rico’s Partisan Press Coda: "In Defense of Newspaper Poets"BibliographyIndex

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems is as rich, diverse and fascinating as its subject matter. Ayendy Bonifacio recovers more than just a genre or a format; he has mapped a lost world of nineteenth-century poems in newspapers. The "Poet’s Corner" will never look the same.