Jose Yarko Barrera

Delirios Hel nicos Jose Yarko Barrera

Gongorism, we read, is a vice of language, thought, and style. The epitome of the baroque style, it challenges our sense of order, proportion, and clarity. Yet Gongora continues to be celebrated even today as a marker of Latin American cultural identity. For scholars unfamiliar with the literature, Barrera's book offers sound reason to discover for themselves the rich tradition of Spanish Baroque poetry, whose remarkable rhetorical and aesthetic power, they will find, may be ignored only at great loss.