The Double Strand: Five Contemporary Mexican Poets - Paperback

by Frank Dauster (Author)

Two strands, one indigenous, the other imposed, pro-duce the poetic and cultural tensions that give form to the work of five contemporary Mexican poets-All Chumacero, Efrain Huerta, Jaime Sabines, Ruben Bonifaz Nuno, and Rosario Castellanos. Although all five are significant figures, only Castellanos has yet been widely studied in the United States, primarily for her novels and her relations with the feminist movement. In spite of a number of rather basic differences in their work, these poets

Author Biography

Frank Dauster is professor of Spanish at Rutgers University. This is his third book on Mexican poetry.