Raul Zurita

A collection of Latin American poetry including such authors as Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, and Antonio Cisneros.

Essential Poems from Latin America

Pinholes in the Night

Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master. This beautiful en face edition, superbly translated by Anna Deeny, brings to English-language readers an indispensable volume written by one of the most important living poets writing in Spanish today. Zurita was a 24-year-old student in Valparaíso when, on the morning of the coup, he was arrested, detained, and tortured. Conceived as the first text of a Dantean trilogy that includes Anteparaíso (Anteparadise) and La Vida Nueva (The New Life), Purgatory is his anguished response to Chile’s violent recent history.

A Bilingual Edition

Purgatory

George Oppen

Giuseppe Ungaretti

J. H. Prynne

Andrea Zanzotto

Ósip Mandelstam

Anne-Marie Albiach

William Fuller

Kumiko Kiuchi

Lit Rev 2

Snow

Here is a major work by a Chilean poet thought by many to be the most brilliant and important new voice in the Spanish language. In its first American edition, this poetry is presented in Spanish and Enlgish, so that readers of both languages may listed to Zurita's voice. Anteparadise can be read as a creative response, an act of resistance by a young artist to the violence and suffering during and after the 1973 coup that toppled the democratically elected Allende government. Zurita thus follows the example of several Latin American pets such as the Peruvian César Vallejo and Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, sharing their passion and urgency, but his voice is unique.

Anteparadise, A Bilingual edition

Chilean poet Raul Zurita has long been recognized as one of the most celebrated and important voices from Latin America. His compelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public and most intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume of selected works is the first of its kind in any language, representing the remarkable range of an extraordinary poet. Zurita s work confronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerful urgency matched by remarkable craftsmanship and imaginative vision. In Zurita s attempt to address the atrocities that indelibly mark Chile, he makes manifest the common history of the Americas."

Selected Works

Sky Below

Anteparadise, A Bilingual Edition

Raul Zurita

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