Modern Nicaraguan Poetry: Dialogues with France and the United States. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993. (Essays)
"No other critic has as sweeping or as incisive a view of contemporary Nicaraguan literature as does White, not only as regards the figures studied in Modern Nicaraguan Poetry, but also as regards younger authors such as Alvaro Urtecho, Julio Valle/Castillo and Jorge Eduardo Arellano, with whose critical ideas he enriches this volume. He thus creates a link between the great authors of earlier generations and the ones that came of age during the resistance to the Somozas and who flourished during the Sandinista Revolution. Because their antecedents were able to create a true national literature, the later generations of Nicaraguan writers will be able to turn for inspiration not to france or the U.S., but rather to indigenous nica sources."
Henry Cohen, Comparative and General Literature"This book succeeds in illuminating a complex poetry concerned with language, myth, history and ethics."
Denis L. Heyck, Hispania"Steven White has produced an engaging study of the influence exerted by strong French and American poets-Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Supervielle, T. S. Eliot, Pound, Williams and MacLeish-on the poetry of seven modern Nicaraguan poets: Alfonso Cortés, Salomón de la Selva, José Coronel Urtecho, Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Joaquín Pasos, Ernesto Cardenal and Carlos Martínez Rivas…White's study is well written and informative."
Edward Waters Hood, World Literature Today