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Matthew Fehskens is Associate Professor of Spanish at East Tennessee State University, USA. He is a scholar of Hispanic modernism, a translator, and an author of short stories. Most recently he published From the Air to the Hand, an anthology of translated poems by Colombian poet Armando Romero (2021). His research focuses on the transnational and decolonial dimensions of literary modernism in Spanish, and he has published on travel literature, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the overlap of word and image in poetic self-portraits in modernismo.
This is a highly engaging study of the prophetic mode across poetic genres and in conjunction with figures as varied as Henri Bergson, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ignatius of Loyola. Through this analysis, Matthew Fehskens makes an impactful contribution to ongoing efforts for greater consideration of Hispanic modernism in transatlantic and trans-European contexts. * Elizabeth Drumm, John and Elizabeth Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities, Reed College, USA * Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism is an effective and innovative retelling of the Hispanic modernist story by way of Henri Bergson’s secular prophetic framework. In this way, the book positions modernist writers in a global sphere in dialogue with themes, texts, writers, and traditions that creates a cohesive literary movement transformative in their approach to modernity at the turn of the 20th century. This framing positions the book as an essential contribution to modernist studies and Spanish American modernista criticism. * Andrew R. Reynolds, Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, Texas Tech University, USA *
