It's the best of the best as picked by the best and he talent pool, which includes three Nobel laureates, is incredible: Borges, Neruda, Vallejo, Parra, Cardenal, Sabines, et al...
Raul Zurita survived arrest and torture under the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. This experience as witness and victim has made him one of the most powerful Chilean voices today.
The 15 poets included in this anthology are certainly equipped to address suffering-nearly all of them lived in political exile for at least part of their lives.
There are very few anthologies of Latin American poetry (in translation) that have been compiled by a poet rather than a scholar.
This anthology speaks directly to the role of literature as a moral compass.
Several excerpts from book-length poems.
bilingual
promotional support from The Poetry Foundation
Raul Zurita survived arrest and torture under the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. This experience as witness and victim has made him one of the most powerful Chilean voices today.
The 15 poets included in this anthology are certainly equipped to address suffering-nearly all of them lived in political exile for at least part of their lives.
There are very few anthologies of Latin American poetry (in translation) that have been compiled by a poet rather than a scholar.
This anthology speaks directly to the role of literature as a moral compass.
Several excerpts from book-length poems.
bilingual
promotional support from The Poetry Foundation
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