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Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry offers a unique and refreshing look at Latinx poetry by showing the breath and richness of Latinx thought and sensibilities in the creation of poetry.--Liliana C. Gonzalez, assistant professor of Chicana/x Feminisms at California State University-Northridge This innovative collection introduces readers to a diverse collection of Latinx poets who are all transforming and rethinking the art and the practice of poetry in the early twenty-first century. Its breakthrough comes in the access it gives us to the poets' thoughts about their creative process, to their relationships with art and politics, and to the complexity and variety of their unique experiences of latinidad.--Ricardo L. Ortiz, author of Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry offers a unique and refreshing look at Latinx poetry by showing the breadth and richness of Latinx thought and sensibilities in the creation of poetry. --Liliana C. Gonzalez, assistant professor of Chicana/x Feminisms at California State University-Northridge This innovative collection introduces readers to a diverse collection of Latinx poets who are all transforming and rethinking the art and practice of poetry in the early twenty-first century. Its breakthrough comes in the access it gives us to the poets' thoughts about their creative process, to their relationships with art and politics, and to the complexity and variety of their unique experiences of latinidad. --Ricardo L. Ortiz, author of Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event

"""As a Latinx writer, I found the experience of reading this book to be one of expansion, illumination, and even validation, and I imagine many readers will have a similar reaction.""--Ruth Joffre, Catapult ""Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry offers a unique and refreshing look at Latinx poetry by showing the breadth and richness of Latinx thought and sensibilities in the creation of poetry.""--Liliana C. Gonzalez, assistant professor of Chicana/x Feminisms at California State University-Northridge ""This innovative collection introduces readers to a diverse collection of Latinx poets who are all transforming and rethinking the art and practice of poetry in the early twenty-first century. Its breakthrough comes in the access it gives us to the poets' thoughts about their creative process, to their relationships with art and politics, and to the complexity and variety of their unique experiences of latinidad.""--Ricardo L. Ortiz, author of Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event"

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Ruben Quesada is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of Revelations and Next Extinct Mammal and the translator of a collection of selected poems by Luis Cernuda titled Exiled from the Throne of Night. He has served as an editor and coordinator for The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, AGNI, Pleiades, and the National Book Critics Circle board. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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