The Poetry of the Americas

Harris Feinsod is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsA Note on the TextIntroduction Hazarding the Poetry of the AmericasThe Poetry of the Americas: A GenealogyIntegrationist Literary HistoryCultural Diplomacy from Good Neighbors to CounterculturesSix Chapters in the Poetry of the Americas1. Hemispheric Solidarities: Wartime Poetry and the Limits of the Good Neighbor The Office of the Coordinators of Inter-American PoetryBridging the Hemisphere: Carrera Andrade's Hart CraneMinority Islands: Hughes, Frank, de Moraes, and the Poem of Racial DemocracyBetween Dissidence and Diplomacy: Neruda, Bishop, BurgosWilliam Carlos Williams and the Ardor of Puerto RicoLysander Kemp and the Gunboat Good Neighbor 2. A Xenoglossary for the Americas Foreign Words and Bloc PoliticsSteven's Lingua Franca et JocundissimaPost-SymbolistsLezama's CitationsBorges and the Dawn of English 3. The Ruins of Inter-Americanism Privileged Observatories: A Midcentury Culture of Pre-Columbian RuinsDead Mouths: Neruda at Machu PicchuRepossessed Dynamics: Olson and Barlow Among StonesMechano Hells and Mayan Isms: Ginsberg, Lamantia, CardenalHidden Doors: Ferlinghetti and Adán at Machu Picchu4. The New Inter-American Poetry Beats and BarbudosBlackburn, Cortázar and all the Village CronopiosThe True Pan-American Union: Margaret Randall and El Corno EmplumadoTransnational Martyrology: Heraud, Quena, EshlemanNeruda, Deep Image, and the Politics of TranslationManhattan Poems beyond the New York School5. Questions of Anticommunism: Hemispheric Lyric in the 1960sBishop's First Anticommunist ShudderLowell's Imperial PhantasmagoriaWalcott in the GulfPadilla in Difficult TimesStations in the Gulf6. Renga and Heteronymy: Cosmopolitan Poetics after 1967 Go Home, Octavio Paz!La Renga de OccidenteHeteronyms and Literary HistoryNotesIndex

this study not only deepens our understanding of poetry scholarship and Literary History, but also may help reform the way Literary History is taught. This will entail applying Feinsod's insights in innovative anthologies and in courses and seminars that allow students to immerse themselves in the work of a single author, allowing one to focus also on the hemispheric dimensions of their work.