Antipoems

How to Look Better & Feel Great

AvNicanor Parra

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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"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 Parra's) by Liz Werner. Of the fifty-eight pieces in Antipoems, the first twenty-three are taken from Parra's 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 Parra's most recent incarnation of the antipoem, the hand-drawn images of his "Visual Artefactos."As his anti-translator Liz Werner explains in her Introduction, Parra's 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."

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-09-30
Mått:152 x 231 x 13 mm
Vikt:207 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9780811215978
Översättare:Liz Fania Werner

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Nicanor Parra (1914–1918)—“a poet of total command and total grandeur” (The New York Times)—is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and widely regarded as one of Latin America’s greatest poets. For forty years he taught theoretical physics at the Universidad de Chile, as well as other universities in the US. His work was championed by such luminaries as Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, and Roberto Bolaño, who once wrote, “Nicanor Parra over everyone else.” Nominated on many occasions for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Parra received many awards and honors, including the inaugural Juan Rulfo Prize, Chile’s National Literature Prize, and Spain’s prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize. New Directions has also published his books Poems and Antipoems (1967), Emergency Poems (1972), Antipoems: New and Selected (1985), and Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great (2004). Liz Fania Werner has lived and studied in Valparaíso, 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.