The Gathering of voices: the twentieth-century poetry of Latin America

How to strangle a swan: contradictions of modernity in Latin America

Out of the prison of language: the avant garde and the first crisis of the new world

The peanut-eating poet: Brazilian modernism

Awakenings: the slow return to the real

The feeling of the world: poet and society under Vargas

Retreats and rediscoveries: public and private voices of the forties and fifties

The architects of construction: poetry and the politics of development in post-war Brazil

Speaking aloud: the re-entry into history

Voices from the silence: poetry and dictatorship in Brazil

Conclusion: against exile.