Description: Further DetailsTitle: AntiPoemsCondition: NewSubtitle: New and SelectedAuthor: Nicanor ParraContributor: David Unger (Edited by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 0811209601EAN: 9780811209601ISBN: 9780811209601Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Poetry & DramaRelease Date: 01/01/1986Description: Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile’s foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years. Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland have channeled his inventiveness into new modes of expression, which remind us of the sometimes sly hermeticism of Italian writers, Eugenio Montale and Elio Vittorini among them, during the Fascist regime. As Frank MacShane makes clear in his introduction, Parra has not tried to escape repression, but by “using his wit and his humor, he has shown how the artist can still speak the truth in troubled times.” Since much of Parra’s early work is now out of print, editor David Unger has included many of the poems which influenced North American poets such as Ferlinghetti and Merton in the ‘50s and ‘60s, some in new or revised translations. Of Parra’s more recent work, there are generous selections from Artifacts (1972), Sermons and Preachings of the Christ of Elqui (1977), New Sermons and Preachings of the Christ of Elqui(1979), Jokes to Mislead the Police (1983), Ecopoems (1983), Recent Sermons(1983), and a section of “Uncollected Poems” (1984). Antipoems: New and Selected is edited by David Unger, who contributed many of the translations to Enrique Lihn’s The Dark Room and Other Poems (New Directions, 1978). Professor Frank MacShane of Columbia University, in his critical introduction, gives a full evaluation of a poet who is “unquestionably one of the most influential and accomplished in Latin America today, heir to the position long held by his countryman, Pablo Neruda.”Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 132mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 250gRelease Year: 1986 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: AntiPoems
Publication Name: AntiPoems
Title: AntiPoems
Subtitle: New and Selected
Author: Nicanor Parra
Contributor: David Unger (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0811209601
EAN: 9780811209601
ISBN: 9780811209601
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 01/01/1986
Release Year: 1986
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 132mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 250g
