Description:
Offers techniques for teaching modern Latin American poetry in college courses, including considerations of teaching the silva, human rights, poetry in indigenous languages, community-based learning, lesser-known contemporary poetry, Afro-descendant poetry, performance, the long poem, and queer theory. Provides classroom exercises and assignments.
Review Quotes:
"This is more than a guide for literature and Spanish-language classrooms--it is an indispensable resource for other disciplines as well. . . . " --Juan Pablo Lupi, University of California, Santa Barbara