Sky Below: Selected Works (Curbstone) - Softcover

Zurita, Raul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810133849 ISBN 13: 9780810133846

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2016

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"There isn't a more important contemporary writer than Ra l Zurita. And through her insistent attention to diction and syntax, Anna Deeny creates an English poetry as abrupt, heuristic, sweeping, and finally redemptive as the Spanish; to wit, she delivers Zurita's genius." --Forrest Gander, author of Eye Against Eye and Torn Awake "Ra l Zurita is one of the essential poets of the twenty-first century, and we are fortunate to have these fiercely beautiful translations." --Robert Hass, author of The Apple Treesat Olema and What Light Can Do "In her powerful and useful introduction to these poems, Anna Morales reminds us of the specific historical events that generated Zurita's poetry. These need to be known. 'To be disappeared' is to be taken away to another piece of the earth, a particular place, and hidden there. In Chile Pinochet and a population gone blood-mad did this. 'To disappear' is to die into God. Zurita studies this difference. His marvelous poetry, as such, is a work of mystery." --Fanny Howe, author of Come and See and Second Childhood "His poems are bone, river, spirit. They are weaved in the sky and in the desert. His words give us eyes to see the blue, the white, the endless hues of beige and ocher--the colors of the desert he returns to. . . He refines distance as well as the sea. He is the revolution of language. Lyrical and epic. Mythical and mesmerizing." --Prairie Schooner

Reseña del editor

Chilean poet Raul Zurita has long been recognized as one of themost celebrated and important voices from Latin America. Hiscompelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public andmost intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume ofselected works is the first of its kind in any language, representingthe remarkable range of an extraordinary poet. Zurita's workconfronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerfulurgency matched by remarkable craftsmanship and imaginativevision. In Zurita's attempt to address the atrocities that indeliblymark Chile, he makes manifest the common history of theAmericas.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0810133849
• ISBN 13: 9780810133846
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290