Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

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9780915943715: Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0915943719 ISBN 13: 9780915943715

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1993

A landmark anthology contains poetry from twelve of the brightest modern Mexican women and illustrates the impact that these poets are having on the course of modern Mexican literature. Original.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

From Publishers Weekly:

The 12 poets featured by Gander ( Rush to the Lake ) in this bilingual collection, most from the post-war generation, have apparently been brought together because of their link to the feminist movement. Accordingly, this writing includes "testimonials" that record the daily experience of women, and it claims to engage an expressive language that defines itself against a traditional poetic voice. Unfortunately, in this case, the result is a composite work that is in fact marginal. From the opening poem with its ludicrous and clumsy description of men ("There is ritual emotion, / the cyclical summer heats up their balls. / They wait, they sniff, they prepare their come-ons") to the last selection with its fussy and obscure imagery ("Lovely deserted boundaries . . . / . . . mirages, blurring echoes / bind them together . . . "), the writing is self-indulgent and, for the most part, maudlin. There is little that characterizes this as Mexican writing; both the form and content are indistinguishable from similar texts by American poets of a certain caliber who are interested chiefly in undisciplined self-expression.
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