Sky Below : Selected Works

Zurita, Raul; Morales, Anna Deeny (TRN)

ISBN 10: 0810133849 / ISBN 13: 9780810133846

Published by Curbstone Books 2, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sky Below : Selected Works
• Publisher: Curbstone Books 2
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810133849
• ISBN 13: 9780810133846
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Chilean poet Raśl 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.

About the Author

RAŚL ZURITA, a prolific poet and visual artist, has chronicled the violence against the Chilean people since the 1973 coup that replaced Salvador Allende’s democratic government with Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. His work has been widely translated. Along with other artists, he founded the art action group CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte), dedicated to the creation of political art resisting the military regime. In 1982 he composed a poem in the sky over New York, and in 1993 he bulldozed "ni pena ni miedo" ("no pain no fear") into the coarse sands of the Atacama Desert. Zurita has been awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature and a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a professor emeritus at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago.

ANNA DEENY MORALES is a literary critic and translator. Her translations of Raśl Zurita’s works include Purgatory and Dreams for Kurosawa. Her translation of Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffé was published in 2015, and her essays and translations of poetry by Alejandra Pizarnik, Nicanor Parra, and Gabriela Mistral, among others, have appeared in such anthologies as Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America and in journals, including the Paris Review, Mandorla, BOMB, and the Harvard Review. She teaches in the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.