Semantics of the World: Selected Poems (Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation) - Softcover

Bustos Aguirre, Rómulo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826364241 ISBN 13: 9780826364241

Publisher: UNM Press, 2022

Synopsis

This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora A. Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public.

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About the Author

Rómulo Bustos Aguirre is a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Cartagena. He is the author of ten major collections of poetry and is one of Colombia's most celebrated writers. He has been awarded numerous awards including, most recently, the National Poetry Prize by the Ministry of Culture.

Nohora Arrieta Fernández is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. She has published essays and articles on Latin American literature and visual arts, comics, and the Afro-Latin American Diaspora.

Mark A. Sanders is a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Notre Dame. His works include A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence and Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNM Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826364241
• ISBN 13: 9780826364241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Arrieta Fernández Nohora, Mark Sanders A.