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Drawing on the poetry of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell explores the epistemic works of Luis Munoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodriguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that, for them, the poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature of both knowledge and poetry. In this first interpretive analysis of the epistemic nature of their poetry, Nantell innovatively engages these poets, each of whom has contributed one of their own poems along with a previously unpublished explication of their chosen poem. Each also provides an original biographical sketch to support Nantell's development of a poetics of epiphany. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Munoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodriguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell's primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a universalist lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled - but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell's research. --Sylvia Sherno

The book is a major contribution to an understanding of the contemporary Spanish lyric, apt for a general audience, specialists in contemporary Spanish literature, and as a model for introducing new poets in graduate classes. In a sense, the study is itself epiphanic. One reads the delimited analyses of just four poets and then somewhat surprisingly realizes that the study offers a clearly defined road map leading into the core of the contemporary Spanish lyric. -- Bulletin of Spanish Studies Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Munoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodriguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell's primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a universalist lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled - but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell's research. --Sylvia Sherno co-editor, Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World

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JUDITH NANTELL is a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Arizona. She has published Rafael Alberti's Poetry of the Thirties: The Poet's Public Voice, winner of the 1984 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Studies Award, and The Poetry of Francisco Brines: The Deconstructive Effects of Language (Bucknell University Press.)    

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