Title: Poetry and loss : the work of Eugenio Montejo /
Authors: Roberts, Nicholas,
Publisher: Tamesis,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Montejo, Eugenio Criticism and interpretation.; Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Abstract: "In a study which covers the entirety of Montejo's career as poet and essayist, this book examines how the work of this seminal Venezuelan writer explores and deals with the experiences of loss in the twentieth century. This represents the first book-length study in English of Montejo's work and the first monograph in any language to offer a sustained thematic analysis of his entire output. In the process, it serves to bring out from the academic shadows one of the most important and commanding poetic voices to emerge from Latin America to the last fifty years."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: Locating Montejo -- Childhood, cycles of loss, and poetic responses -- Language, memory, and poetic recuperation -- Alienation and nature -- Venezuelan alienation and the poetic construction of home -- Conclusion.