Table of Contents:
  • Neighborhood voices in poetry
  • The verbal web of patronage
  • Prayer in the urban setting
  • Love and history : men against women
  • The suicide of a poet
  • Alienation : the outsider as poet
  • The tale as historical testimony
  • Cruelty in the community : a bloody tale
  • Seduction and family space
  • Poetry as political memory
  • Crisis in the generation of 1494.