Latinx Poetics - by Ruben Quesada (Paperback)

About the Book

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

Book Synopsis

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

Review Quotes

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

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

About the Author

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.

Juan Felipe Herrera is professor of Chicano studies at California State University, Fresno.