Research Catalog

Title

Poems and antipoems / Nicanor Parra ; edited by Miller Williams.

Author

Parra, Nicanor, 1914-2018

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [1967]
• ©1967

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Alegría, Fernando, 1918-2005
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
• Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
• Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
• Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019
• Rachal, Patricia, 1952-
• Williams, Miller
• Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
• Ford, David, 1934-
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Murray Printing Company, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

ix, 149 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

The Chilean poet Nicanor Parra is one of those significant figures who appear from time to time in all literature and through a profound originality and sense of the Pound/Confucius principle of "Make It New" revitalize the poetry of their language. Just as the Imagists and William Carlos Williams rechanneled the course of American poetry, so Parra's "antipoems," with their directness of metaphor and rejection of rhetoric and "poetic" decoration, are influencing poets throughout Latin America. "Anti-poetry," Parra has said, "seeks to return poetry to its roots." The reader may judge from this collection, which is drawn from all of Parra's published books, how well he has succeeded. -- From publisher's description.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP242

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Poetry
• Spanish poetry > Translations into English
• Spanish poetry

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Poetry.
• Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1967.

Note

• Translators: Fernando Alegría, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, W.S. Merwin, Patricia Rachal, Miller Williams, William Carlos Williams.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Language (note)

• Each poem in Spanish and English on opposite pages.

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' red paper over boards with green spine; with original dust jacket designed by David Ford.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by David Ford.

Contents

From "Poemas y Antipoemas" (1938-1953). Nineteen-thirty ; Disorder in Heaven ; Self-portrait ; Song ; Ode to some doves ; Puzzle ; Madrigal ; Landscape ; Travel notes ; Letters to an unknown woman ; The pilgrim ; The tunnel ; Memories of youth ; Piano solo ; The viper ; The vices of the modern world ; The tablets ; The trap ; The individual's soliloquy. -- From "Versos de Salon" (1953-1962). Changes of name ; Roller coaster ; In the graveyard ; Clever ideas occur to me ; Love tale ; Journey through Hell ; Death and the maiden ; I move the meeting be adjourned ; Mummies ; Butterfly ; Dreams ; Dog's life ; Poetry ends with me ; Women ; Soda fountain ; Litany of the little bourgeois ; What the deceased had to say about himself ; Funeral address ; The imperfect lover ; The shuffled deck. -- From "Canciones Rusas" (1963-1964). Snow ; Chronos ; Beggar ; Hot cakes ; Rites ; Nobody. -- From "Ejercicios Respiratorios" (1964-1966). Stains on the wall ; Act of independence ; Lonelyhearts ; I call myself a reasonable man ; Thoughts ; In the cemetery ; Young poets ; Pontchartrain causeway ; Test ; Lord's prayer ; I take back everything I've said.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1433

ISBN

• 0224613960
• 9780224613965

LCCN

67023489

OCLC

499208

Author

Parra, Nicanor, 1914-2018, author.

Title

Poems and antipoems / Nicanor Parra ; edited by Miller Williams.

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [1967]

Copyright Date

©1967

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP242

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 67

Language

Each poem in Spanish and English on opposite pages.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1433 bound in publishers' red paper over boards with green spine; with original dust jacket designed by David Ford. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1434 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by David Ford. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1433, 22-1434 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Alegría, Fernando, 1918-2005, translator.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, translator.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, translator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, translator.

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997, translator.

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968, translator.

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019, translator.

Rachal, Patricia, 1952- translator.

Williams, Miller, translator.

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, translator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Ford, David, 1934- cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Parra, Nicanor, 1914- Poems and antipoems. New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1967] (OCoLC)576090909

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1433

Berg Coll 22-1434