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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Chilean Poetry,
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This review is from: Antipoems: New and Selected (Paperback)
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Where would we be without this poet?,
By DJ Rix (NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Antipoems: New and Selected (Paperback)
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
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Original and creative anti-poet,
By A Customer
This review is from: Antipoems, New and Selected (Hardcover)
I read the original in Spanish and definitely Parra is one of the more creative and original poets or anti-poets I have ever read. Anyone interested in Parra can get a feeling of his work looking to its anti-web in spanish,at www.antiweb.cl
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