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Reviewed on December 19, 2005
Even avid poetry readers will be hard pressed to name many Mexican poets aside from Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz or perhaps Jamie Sabines. This anthology, published as part of a cultural exchange between the U.S. and Mexico, attempts to redress that problem with translations of poems by 50 Mexican poets born after 1945. (A companion volume of 50 translated American poets will be published simultaneously in Mexico.) The selections emphasize "the friction and diversity of current Mexican poetr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
