This course will offer a survey of Latin American poetry from the late 19th century to our present day, studying the intersections of formal experimentation and political history, while also serving as a workshop in the techniques and limits of “close reading.” Canonical movements (modernismo, las vanguardias (ultraísmo, creacionismo, estridentismo), poesía afroantillana, el neo-barocco (y el neo-barroso), etc) and their manifestos, lesser studied and largely forgotten writers, and a multitude of theoretical writings from and about Latin American poets will help us understand how these writings have transformed poetry and its theory. Students will write several short papers, as well as a final research paper.

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