Fifty Years of Antipoetry

From: The Texas Observer | Date: March 4, 2005| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

At 90, the world-renowned Chilean (anti) poet Nicanor Parra remains an amazing chameleon, a vigorous gadfly, and a much needed anti-dote to contemporary political rhetoric and ideology.

"Antitranslated" (Parra's own affirmative term) by Liz Werner, Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great is the first collection of his work to appear in English in 20 years. It includes a selection from Parra's notebooks (previously unpublished even in Spanish), filled with witty, irreverent, and ...

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