Nicanor Parra

Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui

Irreverent monologues of a Chilean religious figure and social critic

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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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