The Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980–2000

Abstract

C hapter 1 appeared in Hispanic Review (1999) under the title "The Avant-Garde and its Discontents: Aesthetic Conservatism in Recent Spanish Poetry." I am grateful to Ignacio-Javier López for this accepting this article, and to Guillermo Carnero for circulating it among writers in Spain. Chapter 2 was published in Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World, edited by Cecile West-Settle and Sylvia Sherno. Chapter 3 appeared in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Elena Delgado, Jo Labanyi, and an anonymous reviewer were helpful in improving this piece. Chapter 5 appeared in a special issue Diacritics edited by José María Rodríguez-García. Without the help and encouragement of José María and an anonymous reviewer for Diacritics, this chapter would have been much weaker. Claudio Rodríguez-Fer was also helpful to me in giving me background on Valente's acquaintance with Celan and Heidegger. Chapter 7 first appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. I would like to acknowledge Michael Mudrovic and Randolph Pope for accepting this article, and Akiko Tsuchiya for permission to reprint it here. Randolph also accepted other articles of mine on related topics that did not make it into this book. His generous support of my work over the years is greatly appreciated.

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