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Loading... Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Greatby Nicanor Parra
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This one is going to be more like a fan letter than a review. I can't say that I'm any kind of expert of all the components that go into making a poem what is supposed to be. In this respect maybe this is why the anti-poet Nicanor Parra is probably my most favorite of all. What can I say? I have always loved irreverence and when it sometimes comes with social or political commentary it's even better. Parra is the most irreverent of them all. He pulls no punches. He's willing to throw barbs and jabs at everybody--to explore all sanctimony--to call attention to all unproven beliefs and even into his 90's he is still going strong--is still vital--is still relevant. I named our new cat after his Chimbarango so that should say enough about my admiration for his work. Anyway many thanks to his translator Liz Werner who traveled to Chile and tracked him down so that we could have this work. (  )lriley | Jul 24, 2006 |   0.018 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0811215970, Paperback)The first major collection in almost twenty years of new work by one of Latin America's greatest poets."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 Páginas 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." (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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