Nicanor Parra
Birth date: September 05, 1914
Nicanor Parra's Books
This is the short note I made about this book back in 2005 when I read it: >>This poet is both subversive and fun. It's guys like this that basically piss off right wing conservatives, to put it mildly (haha!). Seriously though, Nicanor Parra is a well known Chilean poet known for his humor and unco...
While hardly a fan of poetry, it doesn’t mean I don’t, occasionally, stumble into/onto poems, or antipoems, that make an impression, catch me up, make me reconsider—if ever so briefly—that I might be missing out. This collection of the author’s antipoems, given as ‘speech-poems’ at award ceremonies ...
Bolaño once called him ‘the greatest living poet in the Spanish language.’ González Eschevaría says, ‘The chief trait Parra picked up from the avant-garde was a playful humor that makes him unique in Latin American poetry, and anticipates the novels of the Boom.’Some samples chosen for their brevity...
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