Roberto Echavarren

Roberto Echavarren has several prize-winning books of poetry to his credit, most recently El expreso entre el sueno y la vigilia (Montevideo, 2009) and Centralasia (Xalapa, 2014; bilingual edition Sao Paulo 2014). El monte nativo (Buenos Aires, 2015) is his latest title. His poetry is definitive. Rooted in both surrealism and contra-constructivist practices, it employs both dislocation and disjunctive series. A native of Uruguay and professor of world literature, long associated with New York...See more

Roberto Echavarren has several prize-winning books of poetry to his credit, most recently El expreso entre el sueno y la vigilia (Montevideo, 2009) and Centralasia (Xalapa, 2014; bilingual edition Sao Paulo 2014). El monte nativo (Buenos Aires, 2015) is his latest title. His poetry is definitive. Rooted in both surrealism and contra-constructivist practices, it employs both dislocation and disjunctive series. A native of Uruguay and professor of world literature, long associated with New York University, he is the co-editor, along with Jose Kozer and Jacobo Sefami of Medusario: muestra de poesia Latinoamericana / Medusario: A Survey of Latin-American Poetry , the leading anthology of poetry in the Neo-Baroque style. Echavarren's critical prose addresses the distinctive characteristics of innovative Latin-American poetry. See less