Parra, Nicanor

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Obra Gruesa
Nicanor Parra
Manufacturer: ANDRES BELLO
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ASIN: B000M51V42

Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great

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Poetryophiles watch out!
Chilean Poetry
A Full Frontal Assault on Poetry
Amazing
Where would we be without this poet?

Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great
Nicanor Parra
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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<B>The first major collection in almost twenty years of new work by one of Latin America's greatest poets.</B>

"Real seriousness," Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in "the comic." And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed. It is an abundant offering of his signature mocking humor, subverting received conventions and pretensions in both poetry and everyday life, public and private, ingeniously and wittily rendered into English in an antitranslation (the word is Parra's) by Liz Werner.

Of the fifty-eight pieces in Antipoems, the first twenty-three are taken from Parra's 1985 collection, Hojas de Parra ("Vine Leaves" or "Leaves of Parra"), two others appeared in his Páginas en Blanco ("Blank Pages," 2001), while the rest come straight out of his notebooks and have never been published before, either in Spanish or English. The book itself is divided into two sections, "Antipoems" (im)proper and a selection of Parra's most recent incarnation of the antipoem, the hand-drawn images of his "Visual Artefactos."

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Poetryophiles watch out! .......2005-06-26

This is it, this is where poetry had to go after its many incarnations and its eventual and fateful death. Parra takes (knowingly or unwittingly) Derrida's concept of differrance and uses it to sledge hammer away his words into his `antipoems'. You'll find no Byron in his pages, or even any Cummings, not to mention any particular style per se. There's so much experimenting -and simplifying- with the word here one doesn't know what one is reading anymore... poems? random (though coherent within themselves) thoughts on paper? cooking recipes? jokes? straightforward reflections on banal life? political commentary?.. yes, all of this.

If there is anything `anti' here is anti-boredom, each `piece' jumps out of the page with offhand easiness, and pomposity is reduced to the reader's own dull lack of imagination. Parra does so much away with droll academic stodginess and allows the invigorating flow of his... expressive, often hilarious and profound, communications; for it is this in the end that comes through -to which anyone at any reading level can enjoy. There are even some `poems' done in a cool artwork-doodle style. What a stimulating and inspired work of art.

Chilean Poetry.......2002-12-02

There are a wide variety of translations here; in both quality and fidelity to the original spanish. The fact that the poems are presented with both the original and the translation makes this book worth it. The Miller Williams and William Carlos Williams translations are wonderful, but some translations, like those by Ginsberg suffer from perhaps too much beat aesethetic co-oped into the work. Still, Parra is wonderful, full of grit and strange images; yet the Spanish, aside from a few words that are only found in Chilean Spanish, is clear and easy to read. I have even translated some of these poems myself. This is amazing work.

A Full Frontal Assault on Poetry.......2001-06-20

Theodor Adorno claimed that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. If so, then Parra is the one man who can justifiably escape the charge of barbarity. What Parra writes is nothing less than a full-scale assault on poetry, or as he calls it, "anti-poetry". Parra's work stands in violation of everything that poetry has ever been. If you are used to lyricism and poetic embellishment and will accept nothing less, you will hate this book. Either that, or it will revolutionize how you see the poetic art. Parra is for poetry what the WWF is for entertainment: it is raw, crass and, as people say, "in your face". It is also brilliant. It is not poetry, but it is, in its own unique way, poetic. And like much of the best poetry always has been, it is immersed in life. Its themes are those we all recognize: crooked police, pestering grandchildren, the morning alarm. It expresses for us what we would all like to express but do not or will not. I suppose one could call it catharsis through anti-art. And perhaps in our post-holocaust world, the most genuine art IS anti-art.

Amazing.......2000-10-27

This book is truly magnificent. Parra has one of the most clever minds in poetry today. His antipoems are very attractive as they move away from the old traditional poetic style. I understand Parra will be proposed for the Literature Nobel Prize next year (2001). I couldn't agree more.

Where would we be without this poet?.......1999-07-23

Between Miller Williams' original selected & Parra's visit to New York City in the Sixties, this poet made an indelible impression on so many United States poets who recognized that Chile was not a world away & that Parra was a fellow "American." &, be assured, "anti-poems" ARE poems.

With the aid of a good Spanish dictionary, the reader can find the cutting, untranslatable puns & sharp humor.

What a joy these poems are to read. One sees, very quickly, that "Outside are only great stretches of freedom." & learning that, one opens the door, walks out & seeks those stretches.

Bob Rixon WFMU-FM

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Poemas y Antipoemas - Nicanor Parra .......2005-08-18

Un libro monumental en el mundo poetico.
Desafortunadamente el autor todavia no recibe su merecido reconocimiento por su obra.

Antipoems at its best!.......2002-12-04

A must read / Latin American poetry beyond Neruda.

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Poemas para combatir la calvicie.......2002-02-24

Nicanor Parra, al iniciar una corriente anti-poètica, con su Manifiesto y sus antipoemas, creò una forma nueva ,original, pura y realmente "poètica" de hacer poesìa en un paìs rico en poetas. Como lo son Huidobro,Neruda,Gabriela Mistral, etc.

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