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Dealing with the speeches of two major poets, one known as the poet and the other as the anti poet of Chile. The speeches recorded in this volume expound and defend two views of poetry. English translations and a critical introduction have also been included.

Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years.

Parallel Spanish text, English translation.

Those who are familiar with Parra's work will find the humor more sharply honed and darker, the anger closer to the surface and sometimes breaking through, the language tighter, the compassion deeper and the statements more political--or anyway more social.

The first major collection in almost twenty years of new work by one of Latin America's greatest poets.