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The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919

By (author) Peter Hulme

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The Dinner at Gonfaroneâ€™s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, SalomÃ³n de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot DÃaz and Julia Ãlvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated. De la Selvaâ€™s range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selvaâ€™s own poetry â€“ his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection â€“ The Dinner at Gonfaroneâ€™s highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as RubÃ©n DarÃo, JosÃ© Santos Chocano, and Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez, all of whom were part of de la Selvaâ€™s extensive network.