From: World Literature Today | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Lindstrom, Naomi | Copyright information

The ambitious, densely packed Antologia de la poesia latinoamericana de vanguardia (1916-1935) presents a sampling of both the various Spanish American avant-gardes and contemporary Brazilian modernismo. The compiler, Mihai G. Grunfeld, has selected poems by fifty-five authors whose vanguardismo ranges from the early experiments of Vicente Huidobro to the mature, assured work of the Mexican Contemporaneos. Although the anthology reveals clearly the evolution of vanguardismo, the volum...