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"First, the book is the sum of the autographic inversion(s) of at least five people: Andean Andrés Ajens and his singular essays/assays; Forrest Gander and Erin Moure, tutelary figures demanding cognizance of the nonliterary or ancestral coeval others in American poetry; Alberto Moreiras, whose foreword truly steps forward; and Michelle Gil-Montero, whose careful translation or "dis[em]placement" is a stunning tour de force. Second, the whole book is written in a different chromatic scale of language and history from that usual in the West. This is a veritable tinku (or encounter) that seeks to deblock contaminated thinking about
poeisis in the Americas; it explores what Ajens calls "misture" to denote both the "métis-isation" and a greater "metasisization" in the usual commentary on indigenous thinking expressed only in terms of European culture in the familiar myth of "Conqu-west." Instead of exclusion, he prefers an invitation to partake of a treasure trove that includes Aristotle, Celan, Poe, Derrida, and others in joyful confluence with Aymara, Quechua, Mazateca, and Mapudungun. These important, far-reaching essays, sometimes angry but always playful, are a necessary reminder that culture and poetry existed in the Americas long before 1492. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." - CHOICE
About the author
MICHELLE GIL-MONTERO holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa, USA. Her translations have appeared in Conjunctions, Circumference, Cipher, Jacket, Almost Island, and other journals, and in the forthcoming anthology 500 Years of Latin American Poetry published by Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poetry After the Invention of América
Book Subtitle: Don’t Light the Flower
Authors: Andrés Ajens
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370678
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Andrés Ajens 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11579-8Published: 26 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29684-2Published: 26 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37067-8Published: 26 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature