The Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art

Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 7
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 9
Anne Day Dewey, Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández,
and José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera
Introduction: Reflecting on the Legacy of the Pan- American- Spanish Axes of Cultural Influence ...................................................................................... 11
Part I Transatlantic Axis of Influence ..................................................... 27
Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez
1. Poeta Más Allá de Nueva York: Federico García Lorca’s Presence in Contemporary Chicanø Literature ........................................................................ 29
José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera
2. “Oh Lorca, Lorca — / shining singer:” William Carlos Williams in Dialogue with Federico García Lorca’s Romances ............................................... 57
Jessica Q. Stark
3. Social Estrangement and Urban Eroticism in the New York Poetry of Frank O’Hara and Federico García Lorca ............................................................. 79
Ángeles Alemán Gómez (translated by Belén Cornejo- Daza)
4. The Yellow Kimono: Retrato de Federico García Lorca by Gregorio Toledo . 93
Laura Hartmann- Villalta
5. Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War’s Legacy in the 20th Century ................ 117
Part II Pan- American Axis of Influence .............................................. 135
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez
6. The Mexican Connection: Covarrubias, de Zayas, and Tamayo in New
York 1920– 1945 ...................................................................................................... 137
Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández
7. Some Notes on the Spanish and Latin American Cultural Traditions
in the Poetics of Denise Levertov ......................................................................... 159
Anne Day Dewey
8. Mexico as Site of Gender Critique in Contemporary US Women’s
Poetry: Denise Levertov’s Life in the Forest in Context ..................................... 181
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
9. Mark Strand and Octavio Paz: The Universality of Poetry, or a
Friendship in Translation ...................................................................................... 203
Coda ....................................................................................................................... 225
José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera, Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez,
Anne Day Dewey, and Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández
10. Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera ............................................................... 227
List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 235
Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................... 237
Index ........................................................................................................................ 241