Ecopoems, Storm, & Some Fringe Benefits

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

289 kr

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When Nicanor Parra died at the age of 103 on January 23, 2018, he was memorialized in the press around the world, from El País to the BBC to The New York Times and on, while Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hailed him as “one of the biggest authors of our literature, in our history.” For over half a century New Directions has been publishing this iconoclastic avant-garde poet of the people most known as an innovator of antipoetry (“Hi to everyone,” his famous manifesto on the art ends). Parra, however, saw himself more significantly as an ecopoet, and was, in fact, one of the originators of the ecopoetry movement. “If you destroy the Earth,” Parra once famously declared in the voice of God, “don’t think I’ll create it again.”In Ecopoems, Storm, & Some Fringe Benefits, the translator Anna Deeny Morales has collected the best of Parra’s ecopoetry, spanning his early antipoetry, his celebrated artefactos and discurcos and songs, the whole of his pivotal 1982 collection Ecopoemas, as well as the entirety of his extraordinary book Temporal (Storm), published only a few years before his death. Written during the dictatorship in the 1980s, Storm was lost for decades, only appearing like a specter in Parra’s conversations about his poetry, as he considered it among his finest work. Then some cassette tapes were discovered with the poet himself reciting the whole collection and the poems were eventually transcribed and rescued from oblivion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2027-04-13
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN9780811232197
ÖversättareAnna Deeny Morales, Anna Deeny Morales

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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). Anna Deeny Morales is a Latina writer who works across genres as a librettist and translator of poetry. Her operas on family love and separation, children, and disappearance have been supported by the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent works include Las Místicas de México (2024) and ZAVALA-ZAVALA, which debuted at the Kennedy Center in 2022. An NEA Fellow for her translation of Gabriela Mistral, she has also translated the poetry of Raúl Zurita, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Amanda Berenguer, among others. Deeny Morales teaches at Georgetown University, and her monograph Other Solitudes: Essays on Consciousness and Poetry is forthcoming in 2028.