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Renowned Chilean antipoet Nicanor Parra has delivered as a series of five verse speeches poems that eschew literary ostentation in favor of playful, conversational musings. In a language steeped in colloquialisms, Parra's declarations employ a range of discourses in order to expose the hypocrisy of human institutions and challenge those who remain satisfied with the status quo. Parra uses his linguistic brilliance to confront the most serious problems of our day: ecology, human rights, and the limits of scientific knowledge. 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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.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50154206527761,"sku":"NGR9780811209601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361998213393,"sku":"CIN0811209601G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007907168529,"sku":"NIN9780811209601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811209601.jpg?v=1750785893"},{"product_id":"el-ultimo-apaga-la-luz-the-last-one-out-shuts-the-lights-book-nicanor-parra-9788426404763","title":"El último apaga la luz \/ The Last One Out Shuts the Lights","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399718736145,"sku":"CIN8426404766G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8426404766.jpg?v=1751319071"},{"product_id":"el-ultimo-apaga-la-luz-the-last-one-out-shuts-the-lights-book-nicanor-parra-9788426429919","title":"El último apaga la luz \/ The Last One Out Shuts the Lights","description":"\u003cb\u003eLos poemas que conforman esta obra selecta estan pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl ultimo apaga la luz\u003c\/i\u003e es una amplia y cuidada seleccion de la obra de quien segun Harold Bloom (es incuestionablemente uno de los mejores poetas de Occidente). El libro abarca desde el inaugural Poemas y antipoemas (que se incluye integro) hasta los Discursos de sobremesa, pasando por Canciones rusas, Sermones y predicas del Cristo de Elqui, Lear, rey \u0026amp; mendigo y Hojas de Parra (que por su centralidad en el proyecto antipoetico tambien se incluye entero), mas algunos poemas dispersos como Quedate con tu Borges o El rap de la Sagrada Familia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeleccionados por Matias Rivas, los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta estan pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra, una gran puerta de entrada para quienes no conozcan cabalmente la antipoesia y, a la vez, la mejor sintesis para quienes ya la admiran, la estudian o, simplemente, la leen con renovada passion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51640959009041,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51640959172881,"sku":"NIN9788426429919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8426429912.jpg?v=1751097418"},{"product_id":"ecopoemas-nicanor-parra-book-nicanor-parra-9788460834106","title":"Ecopoemas Nicanor Parra","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52850135466257,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52850135662865,"sku":"NIN9788460834106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788460834106.jpg?v=1764886631"},{"product_id":"un-punado-de-cenizas-book-nicanor-parra-9789560006004","title":"Un puñado de cenizas","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53072246866193,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53072246898961,"sku":"GOR014728053","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789560006004.jpg?v=1769619829"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nicanor-parra.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}