Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great by Nicanor Parra (English) Paperback

Description: Antipoems by Nicanor Parra, Liz Fania Werner The first major collection in almost twenty years of new work by one of Latin Americas greatest poets. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Real seriousness," Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in "the comic." And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed. It is an abundant offering of his signature mocking humor, subverting received conventions and pretensions in both poetry and everyday life, public and private, ingeniously and wittily rendered into English in an antitranslation (the word is Parras) by Liz Werner. Of the fifty-eight pieces in Antipoems, the first twenty-three are taken from Parras 1985 collection, Hojas de Parra ("Vine Leaves" or "Leaves of Parra"), two others appeared in his Paginas en Blanco ("Blank Pages," 2001), while the rest come straight out of his notebooks and have never been published before, either in Spanish or English. The book itself is divided into two sections, "Antipoems" (im)proper and a selection of Parras most recent incarnation of the antipoem, the hand-drawn images of his "Visual Artefactos." As his anti-translator Liz Werner explains in her Introduction, Parras scientific training infuses his work."Viewed through the lens of antimatter," she writes, "antipoetry mirrors poetry, not as its adversary but as its perfect complement." Author Biography Born in 1914 in the southern city of Chillan, Nicanor Parra studied at the University of Chile, Brown, and Oxford, and spent many years as a teacher of mathematics and a professor of physics. Liz Fania Werner has lived and studied in Valparaiso, Chile. She recently completed an antiwar public poetry installation, "Blackout Poems," and is currently working on her first novel and conducting poetry-writing workshops in a juvenile detention center in her native New York City. Review "A poet with all the authority of a master." -- Mark Strand - The New York Times Book Review "One of the great names in the literature of our language." -- Pablo Neruda "Witty, irreverent, and penetrating insights into the absurdities and contradictions of modern life." -- Dave Oliphant - Texas Observer "Includes a great introduction to Parra and his work by the translator that effortlessly mixes personal anecdote and historical context." -- Jesse Tangen-Mills - Bookslut Review Text "Witty, irreverent, and penetrating insights into the absurdities and contradictions of modern life." Review Quote "Witty, irreverent, and penetrating insights into the absurdities and contradictions of modern life." Details ISBN0811215970 Author Liz Fania Werner Short Title ANTIPOEMS Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Language English ISBN-10 0811215970 ISBN-13 9780811215978 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 861 Year 2004 Birth 1914 Pages 144 DOI 10.1604/9780811215978 Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2004-09-27 NZ Release Date 2004-09-27 US Release Date 2004-09-27 UK Release Date 2004-09-27 Translator Liz Fania Werner Publication Date 2004-09-27 Subtitle How to Look Better & Feel Great Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137311495;

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