What to Read for National Hispanic Heritage Month
To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ve put together a reading list highlighting the arts and lives of Hispanic individuals from a range of counties and traditions. Now through October 15, enjoy 30% off these print and e-books using the code HERITAGE30 on our website.
From the University of Chicago Press
The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
Nicolás Guillén, Translated by Aaron Coleman
A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.
From Acre Books
Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems
Jose Hernandez Diaz
This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.
From Autumn House
Myth of Pterygium
Diego Gerard Morrison
The story of a failed poet struggling with vision loss, personal crises, and what it means to be an arms dealer in a quasi-dystopian Mexico City.
From CavanKerry Press
In Inheritance of Drowning
Dorsía Smith Silva, With a Foreword by Vincent Toro
A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma.
From Swan Isle Press
By Luis García Montero, Translated by Katie King
“Montero offers us a coming‑of‑age story in which León grows intellectually, erotically, and politically. At the same time Spain, in the clutches of a repressive dictatorship and still suffering the aftermath of a brutal civil war, is also coming of age in its struggle toward democracy.”—Anthony Geist, translator of Rafael Alberti’s Roma, peligro para caminantes
Zóbel Reads Lorca: Poetry, Painting, and Perlimplín In Love
By Federico García Lorca, Translated and Illustrated by Fernando Zóbel
Painting, poetry, and music come together in Zóbel Reads Lorca, as Zóbel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain’s most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico García Lorca’s haunting play about the wounds of love.
Aram’s Notebook
Maria Àngels Anglada, Translated by Ara H. Merjian
A mother and son’s fictional journey to escape the Armenian Genocide and start anew.
Celia in the Revolution, New edition
Elena Fortún, Translated by Michael Ugarte with a Foreword by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles
The first major English translation of the final book in the expansive and essential “Celia” series by Elena Fortún.
Finding Duende
Duende: Play and Theory | Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion, Bilingual edition
Federico García Lorca, Translated by Christopher Maurer, Edited by José Javier León and Christopher Maurer
A new translation of Federico García Lorca’s captivating lecture on duende.
From Omnidawn
By Anthony Cody
“The dazzling graphic and concrete sensibility of the poet’s earlier work remains, yet here Cody intervenes upon photos, maps, charts, graphs, and field recordings, producing an autoethnographic score of settler (and displaced) histories.”—The Latinx Project
“In this exciting work, history, imagination, criticism, and wonder share the page, modeling a new way of being in conversation with the world.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
From the University of Wales Press
Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence
Edited by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
A collection of essays illuminating the specificity of Spain’s postcolonial condition while offering a new look at Spain’s internal national conflict.
Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works
Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
An exploration of Silvina Ocampo’s revolutionary reimagining of motherhood and childhood.
The Space of Latin American Women Modernists
Camilla Sutherland
A fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space for researchers and students alike.
The Modern Spanish Sonnet
Edited by John Rutherford
A selection and translation of the best Spanish sonnets from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.
Latin America and Existentialism: A Pan-American Literary History (1864-1938)
Edwin Murillo
An illuminating reevaluation of Latin America’s importance to existentialist thought.
Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities
Eli Bartra
This beautifully illustrated volume is one of the first to trace the role and effects of gender on both the objects of Mexican folk art and the knowledge and life experiences that lie behind them.
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
John T. Maddox IV
A study of the family in contemporary Puerto Rican fiction.
From The Grolier Club
Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library
Mitchell A. Codding and John O’Neill, with a Foreword by Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum
Exhibiting the full range of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department of the Hispanic Society of America, this book relates the history of Spain and the spread of its language and culture to the Americas through manuscripts and printed books.