Enrique Lihn

“Ease is everything in poetry. It separates genius from the merely masterful, marks the spot where art leaves off and reality begins and the poet speaks not for the poets but for humankind. Enrique Lihn, a Chilean, is a foremost inheritor in [this] Latin American tradition.” —Publishers Weekly

The Dark Room and Other Poems

Voces de muerte

Diario de muerte

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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Dave Oliphant. Enrique Lihn's writings, both creative and critical, are considered in Chile some of the most significant in the country's distinguished literary history. This bilingual volume is the most complete collection of Lihn's work in English. As well as some of Lihn's familiar poems, this volume includes representative poems from a number of his later books, previously uncollected pieces, and selections from his final moving sequence, Diary of Death.

Enrique Lihn

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