{"product_id":"poetry-after-the-invention-of-amzsrica-dont-light-the-flower-9781349296842","title":"Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower","description":"This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with \"American\" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Ajens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781349296842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANDRÉS AJENS lives in Santiago, Chile. He completed his doctoral studies in Sociology under Alain Touraine at la École des Hautes Études in Paris, France. He is the author of numerous books, essays, and poems and he co-edits the journal \u003ci\u003eMar con Soroche\u003c\/i\u003e (Santiago\/La Paz), and is co-founder of \u003ci\u003eL\u003ci\u003eenguandina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (www.lenguandina.org) with Aymara translator and linguist Zacarías Alavi Mamani. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMICHELLE GIL-MONTERO holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa, USA. Her translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Circumference, Cipher, Jacket, Almost Island\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand in the forthcoming anthology \u003ci\u003e500 Years of Latin American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e published by Oxford University Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44222927634547,"sku":"9.78135E+12","price":82.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5e16497c-3f5b-4ea0-aaba-86acd5f5eb17.jpg?v=1768140764","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/poetry-after-the-invention-of-amzsrica-dont-light-the-flower-9781349296842","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}