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  • Chapter 15 - Lyrical Mobilities

  • from Part IV - Form
  • Edited by John Alba Cutler, University of California, Berkeley, Marissa López, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992
    Published online:
    10 April 2025
    Print publication:
    17 April 2025, pp 260-276

  • Summary

    This chapter imagines potential and as yet unexplored rapprochements between William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) and Julia de Burgos (1914–53), two contemporaneous writers on the brink of Latinx identification, as it is currently conceived. Observing their generically and linguistically diverse writing practices – marked by distinct introspections about Puerto Rican, Caribbean, pan-Hispanic, Anglo-American, and European identities – I open a discussion of the authors’ experiences of everyday spaces (the city street, the hospital ward, the intergenerational home). What I call “lyrical mobilities” constitutes the process of imagining Williams’s and de Burgos’s movements through hemispheric histories as well as geographic and linguistic spaces. It is also a critical attempt to read these two canonical authors in terms of the spaces they had in common, which, in turn, helps extend our understanding of Latinx lives across disciplines that have contained Williams and de Burgos within discrete silos.