Algunos poetas de nuestra lengua

Twenty-four essays by award-winning poet and critic, dealing with 17 Mexican poets, six Spaniards and one Nicaraguan. Illuminates and exemplifies evolution of poetic forms as well as interruptions, continuities, irregularity and change in poetic history. Comences with Golden Age writers such as Arcipreste de Hita, Calderón de la Barca, and Sor Juana. Second section covers 19th- and 20th-century writers José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Ernesto Cardenal. Final portion discusses authors of "new Mexican poetry:" Homero Aridjis, Marco Antonio Campos, Octavio Paz, et al.