ryka 𖦹‧⭑.ᐟ’s Reviews > Mexican Poetry: An Anthology > Status Update

finished the dense introduction to the history of mexican poetry as well as the foreword. it had a lot to say about the role of the poet & their word blending phrase & reality into an image.
I liked the springtime poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, even though it was very flowy it painted a crisp, if exaggerated image of springtime in Mexico by way of allusions to Greek eloquence & seemingly every flora he could think of