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The Spanish literature section is in PQ.

All the Odes by Pablo Neruda; Ilan Stavans (Editor); Firuz Kazemzadeh (Editor)
Call Number: PQ 8097 .N4 A2 2013
ISBN: 9780374115289
Publication Date: 2013-10-22
A career-spanning volume, charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan Stavans, the distinguished translator and scholar of Latin American literature, gathers all the odes together for the first time in any language.
Diccionario de Literatura Espanola
Call Number: REF PQ 6006 D5 1927
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El Debate Cultural y la Literatura Chilena Actual by Guillermo Garcia-Corales
Call Number: PQ7953 .G37 2007
ISBN: 9780773454316
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
This book in Spanish presents a panoramic view of contemporary Chilean literature from an aesthetic and ideological perspective in connection with the country's recent history.
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by Ilan Stavans (Editor)
Call Number: PQ 7087 .E5 F78 2011
ISBN: 9780374100247
Publication Date: 2011-03-29
A major bilingual anthology of twentieth-century Latin American poetry During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations.
Songs of Life and Hope by Rubén Darío; Will Derusha (Editor, Translator); Alberto Acereda (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: PQ7519.D3 C2713 2004
ISBN: 9780822332718
Publication Date: 2004-03-29
Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Ruben Dario (1867-1916) has been revered by writers including Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Dario created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry.
Jorge Luis Borges by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
Call Number: PQ7797.B635 Z7383 2004
ISBN: 9780791078723
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Struggling with poor eyesight and eventual blindness for most of his life, Borges went on to become of one of the greatest short story writers of 20th century. His fiction, often metaphysical and fantastic has been said to influence the great magical realists.

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