@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdpjn.8, ISBN = {9781855661936}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdpjn.8}, abstract = {In the preceding chapters I have focused on the broad sense of temporal loss in Montejo’s work, taking such loci as the childhood homestead and the poet’s father’s bakery as leitmotivs through which the effects of temporal – and temporolinguistic – loss are presented. But the importance of these locales in their own right attunes us to the fact that the overriding sense of loss in Montejo’soeuvreis played out in terms of place and habitat as well. It is a thematic which is most prominent in the collections of Montejo’s mid-period, that is,Algunas palabras,Terredad,Trópico absoluto, andAlfabeto}, bookauthor = {NICHOLAS ROBERTS}, booktitle = {Poetry and Loss: The Work of Eugenio Montejo}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {121--159}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Alienation and Nature}, year = {2009} }