Results for "Zurita, Raul"

A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature.“We drag histories behind us,” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, “here / where there’s neither land / no... Read More about Exhausted on the Cross

Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master. This beautiful en face e... Read More about Purgatory: A Bilingual Edition

Here is a major work by a Chilean poet thought by many to be the most brilliant and important new voice in the Spanish language. In its first American edition, this poetry is presented in Spanish and Enlgish, so that readers of both languages may listed to Zurita's voice.Anteparadise can be read as ... Read More about Anteparadise, A Bilingual edition

" A] well-defined, important primer on Latin American poetics."--Booklist "When we read a book we put it in front of our eyes, not behind them, which is to say, more or less, that we open ourselves to a dimension of our future."--Ra l Zurita, from the introduction This intensely focused bilingual an... Read More about Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America

A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chilé's most celebrated contemporary poets.Raúl Zurita’s INRI is a visionary response to the atrocities committed under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. In this deeply moving elegy for the dead, the whole of Chile, with... Read More about INRI (NYRB Poets)

XXIX PREMIO REINA SOFÍA DE POESÍA IBEROAMERICANALa Vida Nueva tal como Zurita lo concibió: un verdadero acontecimiento en la poesía contemporánea.. Esta es la historia azarosa de un proyecto en el que Raúl Zurita ha empeñado la mitad de su vida. En 1983, tras haber cambiado para siempre la poesía ch... Read More about La Vida Nueva / The New Life