Can you tell that I'm getting ahead on sources? I received some inspiration, so I decided to just go for it.
Okay, here's this one:
Galeano, Eduardo. Memory of Fire: Genesis. New York: Norton & Co., 1998. Print.
Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan writer (yay hooray!) so his books are translated from Spanish. Galeano is a contemporary writer (he actually came to BYU a few years ago), and his essays are completely different than any of the other essays I've included in my sources thus far. His essays may be better described as prose poems, because they are all very brief and poet yet very exploratory and meditative. Poetry, of course, can also be meditative, but his book reads more like essays than it does poetry for me. Anyway, this particular book explores the clashing of the Old World and New World, focusing on Latin America. Thematically, this is a collection of historical essays, or at least essays with a historical focus, but they do and say so much more. He takes history and inserts his own voice and view and language, and marries them together to produce beautiful, essayistic, and poetic pieces.
He will be interesting to study in context of the classical British essay, because he is so different, but at the same time I would love to see how he intersects with the canonical essayists. And he will be fun to imitate.
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