Hemispheric Poetics: raúlrsalinas, César Vallejo, and the Convergence of Xicanx and Vanguardia Poetry

Abstract

This essay places two important poets of the Americas in conversation. I argue that the poetry of raúlsalinas and César Vallejo presents an array of poetic convergences that can be studied and critiqued to contribute to an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to hemispheric studies. Salinas, a Xicanx poet, and Vallejo, a Peruvian writer, share deep artistic, political, and ideological sensibilities. In studying their poetry from a critical convergence approach we may interpret their works in ways that open up their oft hermetic language to reveal the deeper political contestations and autobiographical accounts that are contained in their verses.