Contents

pp 5-6

Acknowledgments

pp 7-8

Preface

pp 9-14

Part One - The Avant-Garde and its Discontents: The Place of Poetry in Contemporary Spanish Culture

pp 15-16

1 - Aesthetic Conservatism in Recent Spanish Poetry

pp 17-31

2 - Three Apologies for Poetry

pp 32-48

3 - Poetry, Politics, and Power

pp 49-62

Part Two - Valente, Gamoneda, and the “Generation of the 1950s”

pp 63-64

4 - In Search of Ordinary Language: Revisiting the “Generation of the 1950s”

pp 65-82

5 - José Ángel Valente's Lectura de Paul Celan: Translation and the Heideggerian Tradition in Spain

pp 83-102

6 - Antonio Gamoneda's Libro de los venenos: The Limits of Genre

pp 103-118

Part Three - Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s

pp 119-120

7 - Gender Under Erasure (Amparo Amorós, Luisa Castro)

pp 121-131

8 - Desire Deferred: Ana Rossetti's Punto umbrío

pp 132-144

9 - Concha García: The End of Epiphany

pp 145-155

10 - Lola Velasco's El movimiento de las flores and the Limits of Criticism

pp 156-164

Afterword

pp 165-168

Bibliography

pp 169-174

Index

pp 175-179