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

Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 7


Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 9


Anne Day Dewey, Cristina M. Gamez- Fernandez,


and Jose Manuel Rodriguez 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. Martin- Rodriguez


1. Poeta Mas Alla de Nueva York: Federico Garcia Lorca's Presence in Contemporary Chicano Literature ........................................................................ 29


Jose Manuel Rodriguez Herrera


2. "Oh Lorca, Lorca - / shining singer:" William Carlos Williams in Dialogue with Federico Garcia Lorca's Romances ............................................... 57


Jessica Q. Stark


3. Social Estrangement and Urban Eroticism in the New York Poetry of Frank O'Hara and Federico Garcia Lorca ............................................................. 79


Angeles Aleman Gomez (translated by Belen Cornejo- Daza)


4. The Yellow Kimono: Retrato de Federico Garcia 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 Martinez Rodriguez


6. The Mexican Connection: Covarrubias, de Zayas, and Tamayo in New


York 1920- 1945 ...................................................................................................... 137


Cristina M. Gamez- Fernandez


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 Maria Martinez Serrano


9. Mark Strand and Octavio Paz: The Universality of Poetry, or a


Friendship in Translation ...................................................................................... 203


Coda ....................................................................................................................... 225


Jose Manuel Rodriguez Herrera, Manuel M. Martin- Rodriguez,


Anne Day Dewey, and Cristina M. Gamez- Fernandez


10. Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera ............................................................... 227


List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 235


Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................... 237


Index ........................................................................................................................ 241