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Poems and Anti-Poems

by Nicanor Parra

Pioneering collection merging traditional poetry with satirical antipoetry

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Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra

Chilean anti-poet who demolished the received grandeur of Latin American verse with ironic, colloquial, formally subversive poems. He lived to 103 and remained productive until near his death, outlasting almost all of his contemporaries.

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