Derek Bartholomew’s Reviews > The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology > Status Update

This is a superb anthology so far.

I have fallen in love with Neruda all over again, marveled at the poetry and the power of artists I hadn’t heard of before, and discovered that Borges may be a better poet than a prose writer: Don’t attack me! I liked Labyrinths too.

My Spanish is atrocious; but I am pleased with the side-by-side translations because it helps me follow the meter of the original.

A nice compilation: With the exception of some of the moderns and Jose Marti, I have never read these poets.

Some of the translators are quite surprising: I’ve already come across translations from Samuel Beckett and Ursula K. Le Guin.