@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdpjn.5, ISBN = {9781855661936}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdpjn.5}, abstract = {Within the tradition of modern Venezuelan poetry, Eugenio Montejo (1938–2008),nom de plumeof Eugenio Hernández Álvarez, is a central figure. Recent years have witnessed an increasing recognition, both within and beyond the confines of his homeland, of his importance in Venezuela’s literary history, and have seen the rapid growth of his reputation as one of the most notable individual literary voices to emerge not just from Venezuela but from Latin America generally in the twentieth century. Such recognition culminated in his being awarded the Premio Internacional Octavio Paz de Poesía y Ensayo 2004. Despite this prominence, Montejo’s work}, bookauthor = {NICHOLAS ROBERTS}, booktitle = {Poetry and Loss: The Work of Eugenio Montejo}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {1--38}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Introduction: Locating Montejo}, year = {2009} }