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  • Chapter 13 - The Age of Anthology

  • Edited by José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of Houston, Anna M. Nogar, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
  • Book:
    A History of Mexican Poetry
    Published online:
    21 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 242-257

  • Summary

    Although the first anthology of Mexican poetry dates from 1833, Alejandro Higashi argued in his seminal volume PM-XXI-360 that the primary role of the anthology in Mexico changed in 1966. Traditionally a genre that presents a selection of previous work shaped by a certain notion of taste, the anthology took on an overtly prescriptive role with the first edition of Poesía en movimiento, edited by Octavio Paz, Alí Chumacero, José Emilio Pacheco, and Homero Aridjis. This text has remained in print ever since, and has privileged a practice of “demanding poetry” that has been taken up by later anthologies. The chapter also discusses the “cloning lab” of the anthology and how this phenomenon can be discerned in the profusion of anthologies published since the 1980s.