Great Regulars: From Hombre de paso/"Just Passing Through" (1981)

to La vida al contado /"Life in Installments" (1992) and beyond, there's a bizarre quality to his verses, a proneness to archaisms, an endearment of symbols, as if [Isaac] Goldemberg's contemporaries were not Raúl Zurita, Alberto Blanco, Homero Aridjis, and other poets from the Spanish-language Americas today, but Dante and Milton and perhaps Goethe.

from Zeek: Poems--With an Introduction by Ilan Stavans

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