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Nicanor Parra (1914–2018)

Autor(a) de Poemas y Antipoemas

63+ Works 610 Membros 9 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile on September 15, 1914. He received degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Chile in 1938. He later studied mechanics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and cosmology at the University of Oxford in mostrar mais England. He taught theoretical physics at the University of Chile for decades. He was a poet who pioneered the literary movement that became known as anti-poetry. He published his first book, Singer Without a Name, in 1937. His other books include Poems and Antipoems, Emergency Poems, Artifacts, and The Sermons and Teachings of the Christ of Elqui. In 1963, he spent six months in the Soviet Union translating the work of several Soviet poets into Spanish. He received Chile's National Literary Prize in 1969 and the Cervantes Prize in 2011. He died on January 23, 2018 at the age of 103. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Inclui os nomes: PARRA NICANOR, Nicandor Parra

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Obras por Nicanor Parra

Poemas y Antipoemas (1966) 174 exemplares
Antipoems: New and Selected (1985) 43 exemplares
Emergency Poems (1972) 38 exemplares
Poemas Para Combatir La Calvicie (1993) 29 exemplares
After-Dinner Declarations (2006) 28 exemplares
Obra gruesa (1969) 18 exemplares
Lear Rey & Mendigo (2010) 9 exemplares
Versos de salón (1962) 5 exemplares
Antipoesie 4 exemplares
Antiprosa (2015) 3 exemplares
Un puñado de cenizas (2012) 3 exemplares
EL ULTIMO APAGA LA LUZ (2018) 3 exemplares
Canciones rusas (2006) 3 exemplares
Páginas en blanco (2001) 2 exemplares
Parra Poesie (2016) 2 exemplares
Anti-Poemas (1976) 2 exemplares
Coplas de Navidad (1983) 2 exemplares
Temporal (2014) 2 exemplares
La Vuelta Del Cristo De Elqui (2007) 2 exemplares
Poezija je sve što se miče (2016) 1 exemplar
Le montagne russe (2008) 1 exemplar
Antidigte (2016) 1 exemplar
Nicanor Parra (2000) 1 exemplar
En breve (2001) 1 exemplar
Poemas 1 exemplar
Poesía Rusa Contemporánea (1971) 1 exemplar
obras completas II 1 exemplar
100 años Nicanor Parra (2013) 1 exemplar
La cueca larga 1 exemplar
Artefactos 1 exemplar
Voy y Vuelvo 1 exemplar
Poesia politica 1 exemplar
Anti-poems 1 exemplar
Gato en el camino (2022) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 352 exemplares
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contribuidor — 332 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 304 exemplares
Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (1602) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Antaeus No. 69, Fall 1992 (1992) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

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This is the short note I made about this book back in 2005 when I read it:

>>This poet is both subversive and fun. It's guys like this that basically piss off right wing conservatives, to put it mildly (haha!). Seriously though, Nicanor Parra is a well known Chilean poet known for his humor and unconventional verse. So, what is antipoetry? Well, simply put it is the opposite of poetry, and yet it is not quite as easy as that. Antipoetry can be understood from the concept of antimatter. In her introduction to the book, Werner writes that "viewed through the lens of antimatter, antipoetry mirrors poetry, not as its adversary but as its complement; it is not by nature negative, but negative where poetry is positive, and vice versa; it is as opposite, complete, and interdependent as the shape left behind in the fabric where the garment has been cut out" (x).

I think that is a great way to look at it, as a complement, and in the case of Parra's work, as a playful poetry. Read why the poet thinks he should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Reading, what's the problem with philosophy (who does the dishes), and admire some visual artefactos (yes, he draws as well). The book is fun to read and reread. For the squeamish, there are some words (yes, he says "shit" and other chosen words of "color"), but nothing a reader can't handle. He addresses life, politics, math, philosophy, women, humor, etc. As an interesting touch, for bilingual readers, do look at the translation, or rather antitranslation. She was encouraged by Parra to use more cultural equivalents rather than literal translations. The results are some interesting and subtle differences between the poems and the translations, creating something new, maybe subversive, well worth it if you pay attention. Overall, this book is very highly recommended.
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bloodravenlib | 1 outra crítica | Aug 17, 2020 |
Poeta iberoamericano fundamental, premio Reina Sofía, Juan Rulfo y Cervantes, este libro fue su primera compilación del año 1969. Una panorámica de la antipoesía que abarcaba apenas 15 años, pero que ya constituía una de las voces más importantes de la literatura mundial
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Rodrigo.Aravena | Feb 4, 2013 |
Nicanor Parra (1914), consecuente con sus ideas, es autor de lo que él ha llamado antipoesía, un proyecto sistemático de recuperación del habla empírica, una búsqueda -a través del humor peculiar, la sobriedad irónica, las palabras antisolemnes y la reafirmación paradójica- de un campo verbal fresco para la expresión lírica.
 
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BibliotecaUNED | 1 outra crítica | Apr 1, 2011 |

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Obras
63
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6
Membros
610
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Avaliação
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Críticas
9
ISBN
69
Línguas
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