| Inri Contributor(s): Zurita, Raul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934851043 ISBN-13: 9781934851043 Publisher: Marick Press OUR PRICE: $14.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: A shocking poetic account of an event that was kept secret: the throwing of the bodies of the disappeared Chile into the mouths of volcanoes and into the sea. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Dewey: 860 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.28" W x 8.88" (0.55 lbs) 134 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by William Rowe. INRI responds to the need to find a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from official records in Chile: the fact that the bodies of the disappeared were thrown out of helicopters into the mouths of volcanoes and into the sea. In order to bring this event, that was neither seen nor heard, into language, Zurita invents a form and language capable of bringing it into the present. The one place where these unspeakable acts might be registered is in the landscape of Chile: the mountains, desert, and sea. There the event might begin to be touched, heard, and finally seen. When there are no places from which to speak, "the stones cry out." |
Contributor Bio(s): Zurita, Raul: - Raul Zurita, winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize, is one of the best known poets of Latin America. His work is part of a revolution in poetic language, that began in the 1970s and sought to find new forms of expression, radically different from those of Pablo Neruda. The challenge was to confront the contemporary epoch, with its particular forms of violence, including violence done to language. |