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AcknowledgmentsPrefaceAn Introduction to Mestizo Poetics by Cecilia VicuñaA Historical Introduction to Latin American Poetry by Ernesto Livon-GrosmanAnonymous Maya ScribesAnonymous iAnd All Was Destroyed (excerpt)/iAnonymous iCodex Cantares Mexicanos (excerpt)/iAnonymous iThe Florentine Codex (excerpt)/iAnonymous Inca QuipuInca Garcilaso de la Vega iBeautiful Maiden/iAnonymous iPopol Vuh (excerpt)/iAlonso de Ercilla y Zuñiga iThe Araucaniad (excerpt)/iMateo Rosas de Oquendo iThe Mestizo's Ballade/iFelipe Guamán Poma de Ayala iCachiuia/iiFestival of the Inca/iiPrincipal Accountant and Treasurer/iPriests Who Force the Indians to Weave ClothGregório de Matos iDefine Your City/iAn Anatomy of the Ailments Suffered by the Body of the Republic, In All Its Members, and Complete Definition of What Has Ever Been the City of BahiiTo The City of Bahia Laying His Eyes First Upon His City He Sees That Its Merchants Are The Primary Cause of Its Ruin, Because It Longs After Useless and Deceitful Goods/iiTo The Palefaces of Bahia Upon Finding An Arm Taken from the Statue of the Christ Child of Our Lady of the Wonders, Which Was Profaned by Unbelievers at the See of Bahia/iSor Juana Inés de la Cruz iFirst Dream (excerpt)/iiThis coloured counterfeit that thou beholdest/iiTarry, shadow of my scornful treasure/iiDiuternal infirmity of hope/iiVillancico VIII (excerpt)/iAnonymous iThe Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (excerpt)/iAnonymous iThe Book of Chilam Balam of Mani (excerpt)/iAnonymous iGrant Don Juan V Life/iiEight-Line Acrostic/iiSimón Rodríguez Social Virtues and Illuminations/iAnonymous iAtahualpa Death Prayer/iBartolomé Hidalgo iNew Patriotic Dialogue/iFrancisco Acuña de Figueroa iTo the Most Holy Virgin Mary/iiMultiform Salve (excerpt)/iiAlphabetical-Numerical Prophecy/iHilario Ascasubi iThe Slippery One/iAntonio Gonçalves Dias iSong of Exile/iManuel Antonio Álvares de Azevedo iIntimate Ideas (excerpt)/iSousândrade iWall Street Inferno/iJosé Hernández iMartín Fierro (excerpt)/iAntonio de Castro Alves iThe Slave Ship (Tragedy on the Sea) (excerpt)/iRosa Araneda iCueca of the Lady Conductors/iJosé Martí iWaking Dream/iiLove in the City/iJoão da Cruz e Sousa ilesbian/iiAfra/iJosé Asunción Silva iArs/iOlavo Bilac iPortuguese Language/iRubén Darío iLove Your Rhythm/iiThe Wandering Song/iiEHEU!/iiNocturne/iiPhilosophy/iiThe Optimist's Salutation/iJosé Juan Tablada iThree Haikus: Willow, Cherimoya Tree, Bug/iiIdeogram Latern (excerpt)/iiHavana Impressions/iJosé María Eguren iThe Lady I/iiThe Towers/iiFavila/iJoaquín Torres García iAmérica Invertida/iiCity With No Name (excerpt)/iJulio Herrera y Reissig iLunatic Tertulia/iAugusto dos Anjos iA Philosopher's Agony/iiModern Buddhism/iPedro Kilkerry iIt's the Silence/iiMare Vitae/iDelmira Agustini iTo Eros/iiThe Ineffable/iiThe Intruder/iManuel Bandeira iAnthology/iiGreen-Black/iiMy Last Poem/iEnriqueta Arvelo Larriva iEmotion and Advantage of Proven Depth/iiAll Morning the Wind Has Spoken/iAlejandro Xul Solar i"This Hades Is Fluid" (excerpt)/iGabriela Mistral iDrops of Gall/iiAirflower/iiA Word/iiThe Other Woman/iOswald de Andrade iBrazilwood (excerpt)/iiCannibal Manifesto (excerpt)/iOliverio Girondo iThe Mix/iiMy Lumy/iiTotem Night/iiYou Have to Look For It/iiVotive Offering/iCésar Vallejo iThe Black Heralds/iiTrilce (excerpt)/iiBlack Stone on a White Stone/iiTelluric and Magnetic/iiI stayed on to warm up the ink in which I drowniiThere are days, there comes to me an exuberant, political hunger/iAlfonsina Storni iWorld of Seven Wells/iiAn Ear/iVicente Huidobro iMinuit/iiPiano/iiCanto I (excerpt)/iiNon Serviam/iMario de Andrade iInspiration/iiNocturne/iiA Very Interesting Preface (excerpt)/iPablo de Rokha iSong of the Old Male (excerpt)/iMaría Sabina iLife (excerpt)/iJuan L. Ortiz iVillage On The River/iiWhy?/iGamaliel Churata iKhirkhilas (excerpt)/iRaúl Bopp iCobra Norato (excerpt)/iLuis Palés Matos iPrelude in Boricua/iiBlack Dance/iJorge Luis Borges iThe Golem/iiThe Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires/iiBorges and I/iiLimits/iRosamel Del Valle iCanticle IX/iiMagic Love/iCecilia Meireles iPyrargyrite Metal, 9/iiSong/iiSpeech/iiSecond Rose Motif/iJosé Gorostiza iDeath without End (excerpt)/iiElegy/iiPauses I/iCarlos Drummond de Andrade iThis Is That/iiPassion for Measure/iiIn the Middle of the Way/iiF/iNicolás Guillén iSensemayá/iiSon Number 6/iiMy Last Name I, a family elegy/iXavier Villaurrutia iL. A. Nocturne: The Angels/iiNocturne: Fear/iCésar Moro iTo Wait/iiTrafalgar Square/iPablo Neruda iMelancholy Inside Families/iiWalking Around/iiRight, comrade, it's the hour of the garden/iAurelio Arturo iClimate/iiLullaby/iOmar Cáceres iMansion of Foam/iiDeserted Blue/iiThe I's Illumination/iiVisitor Extremes/iMartín Adán iAloysius Acker is coming into the world/iiWithout Time Signature, Hurrying Ad Lib/Played Freely, etc./iJosé Lezama Lima iThoughts On Havana (excerpt)/iiFifes, Epiphany, Goats/iiDeath of Time/iEnrique Molina iThe Way It Must Be/iiHue/iiAquatic Rite/iPablo Antonio Cuadra iGod Creates the Andes/iiThe Myth of the Jaguar/iOctavio Paz iSunstone (excerpt)/iiHere/iiExclamation/iiAltar/iJoaquín Pasos iWarsong of the Things (excerpt)/iNicanor Parra iNo President's Statue Escapes/ii1973/iiU.S.A./iiThe Individual's Soliloquy/iiDumb, Sad, and Thoughtful/iiGoddamn the Empty Sky/iGonzalo Rojas iYou Shouldn't Copy Pound/iiQedeshim Qedeshóth/iCésar Dávila Andrade iBulletin and Elegy of Indian Enslavement (excerpt)/iJoão Cabral do Melo Neto iEducation by Stone/iiTale of an Architect/iiThe Unconfessing Artist/iiA Knife All Blade/iOlga Orozco iVariations on Time/iiThe Obstacle/iIdea Vilariño iMetamorphosis/iiPoor World/iiA Guest/iiI did not love you/iJaime Saenz iAnniversary of a Vision (excerpt)/iJuan Sánchez Peláez iFrom the Fleeting and Permanent (excerpt)/iiDark Bond/iJorge Eduardo Eielson iMaría's First Death/iiParacas Pyramid Performance, 1974/iiQuipu, l965/iCarlos Martínez Rivas iTwo Murals: U. S. A. (excerpt)/iGyula Kosice iPortable Madi Dictionary (excerpt)/iiMADI/iErnesto Cardenal iDeath of Thomas Merton (excerpt)/iRosario Castellanos iLivid Light/iiSilence Around An Ancient Stone/iiMalinche/iApolônio Alves dos Santos iAntônio Conselheiro and the Canudos Rebellion/iBlanca Varela iI bury my hand in the sand/iiExercises/iiFinal Scene/iiFamily Secret/iiCurrículum Vitae/iDécio Pignatari ihear the earth/iidrink coca cola/iCarlos Germán Belli iTortilla/iiSestina of Mea Culpa/iiI trust now in nothing/iFrancisco Madariaga iBlack Colá Jara/iiThe Trivial Jungle/iLeonidas Lamborghini iThe Displaced Applicant (excerpt)/iiEva Perón at the Stake (excerpt)/iamereida iamereida (excerpt)/iEdgardo-Antonio Vigo iobject-poems/iEnrique Lihn iThe Father's Monologue with His Infant Son/iiThose Who Are Going To Die Can't Wait/iHaroldo de Campos iThe Ear's Pavillion/iiBorn and Dies/iiGaláxias (excerpt)/iJuan Gelman iCDLVI/iiCDLXXXI/iiXDV/iAugusto de Campos ieggtangle/iiEye for an Eye/iiTo Put On A Mask/iJaime Jaramillo Escobar iThe Leather Telegram/iLorenzo Ramos iThe Foreigners Lie About What They Want/iAntonio Martínez iThe Words of Pa'i Antonio/iAurelio Frez iMother, here we are/iAlfredo Silva Estrada iGrape Harvests/iiThe Dwellers (excerpt)/iGerardo Deniz iMeditate/iiThe authoritarian school and how a respectable literary genre was born/iiThreat/iiRomulus Augustulus/iiSexologic/iIsabel Fraire iA Moment Captured by a Japanese Painter of the 18th Century Seen in a Moment of the 20th Century in a London Gallery/iiUntitled/iiHousing Complex /iSergio Mondragón iExodus of the Gods (excerpt)/iSusana Thénon iPoem With Simultaneous Translation Spanish-Spanish/iiNuptial Song/iRoque Dalton iNo, I Wasn't Always This Ugly/ii The Country - Sir Thomas/ii Toadstools VIII/iAlejandra Pizarnik iNocturnal Singer/iiFrom the Other Side/iiFrom a Copy of "Les Chants de Maldoror"/iiFiesta/iiUseless Frontiers/iOscar Hahn iRestriction of Nocturnal Movements/iiConjurer's Tract/iiVision of Hiroshima/iEugenio Montejo iThe World's Practice/iiA Bird's Earthness/iiGood-bye to the 20th Century/iOsvaldo Lamborghini iThe Most Amusing Song of the Devil (a prose work half in verse, no joke) (excerpt)/iJosé Kozer iA Meeting at Cho-Fu-Sa/iiKafka Reborn/iRodolfo Hinostroza iContra Natura (excerpt)/iAntonio Cisneros iThe Dead Conquerors/iiPoem on Jonah and the Disalienated/iiAppendix to the Poem on Jonah and the Disalienated/iJuan Luis Martínez iRemarks Concerning the Exuberant Activity of "Phonetic Confabulation"or "The Language of Birds" in Works by Jean-Pierre Brisset, Raymond Roussel, Marcel Duchamp, and Others/iiBreathing House, Almost the (Author's) Little House/iiEar/iiThe New Novel: The Poet as Superman/iiThe Structure of Political Thought/iGloria Gervitz iMigrations (excerpt)/iSoledad Fariña iEverything Calm, Immobile/iiWhich To Paint Which First/iiNot Time Yet/iiWhere The Yellow/iPaulo Leminski iCatatau (excerpt)/iiMetamorphosis (excerpt)/iMaría Mercedes Carranza iHomeland/iiHeels Over Head with Life/iiI'm Afraid/iiCanto 17: Cumbal/iiCanto 18: Soňacha/iiCanto 3: Dabeiba/iArturo Carrera iIt Wasn't in Sicily, It Wasn't Here (excerpt)/iCecilia Vicuña iPhysical Portrait/iicon-con/iiQuipu de Londres/iiInstan (excerpt)/iWilson Bueno Mar Paraguayo (excerpt)Néstor Perlongher iTuyú/iiMme. Schoklender/iDaisy Zamora iRadio Sandino (excerpt)/iRaúl Zurita iInri (excerpt)/iiDesert Writing/iiSky Writing/iCoral Bracho iWater of Jellyfish/iiIts dark force curving/iiGive me, earth, your night/iElvira Hernández iThe Flag of Chile (excerpt)/iReina María Rodríguez iTwilight's Idol/iEmeterrio Cerro iMiss Murkiness (excerpt)/iJorge Santiago Perednik iShock of the Lenders (excerpt)/iHumbert Ak'abal iStones/iiAdvice/iiEffort/iiNavel/iiFireflies/iiWalker/iiLearning/iiBuzzard/iElikura Chihuailaf iI Still Want To Dream In This Valley/iiFor I Am The Power Of The Nameless/iMyriam Moscona iBlack Ivory (excerpt)/iJosely Vianna Baptista iA Sound of Ancient, Faded Flows/iiTraces/iiThe Grail/iXunka' Utz'utz' Ni' iPrayer So My Man Won't Have to Cross The Line/iLoxa Jiménes Lopes iPexi Kola Magic/iMaría Ernándes Kokov iThe Talking Box Speaks/iTonik Nibak iDance of the Perfumed Woman/iCristina Rivera-Garza iThird World (excerpt)Juan Gregorio Regino iCantares/iList of TranslatorsSource Notes