During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations.
From Rub n Dar o\'s quest to renew the Spanish language to C sar Vallejo\'s linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borges\'s cosmopolitanism to Pablo Neruda\'s placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from Alejandra Pizarnik\'s agonies of the self to Humberto Ak\'abal\'s examination of all things indigenous, it is through verse that the hemisphere\'s cantankerous c.
During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations