Research Catalog

Title

• Antipoems : how to look better & feel great / antitranslation by Liz Werner.

Author

Parra, Nicanor, 1914-2018

Publication

New York : New Directions, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• New Directions Publishing.
• Werner, Liz.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xiv, 130 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Born in 1914 in the southern city of Chillan, Parra spent many years as a teacher of mathematics and a professor of physics. As his antitranslator Liz Werner explains in her introduction, Parra's scientific training infuses his work. "Viewed through the lens of antimatter," she writes, "antipoetry mirrors poetry, not as its adversary but as its perfect complement ... it is as opposite, complete, and interdependent as the shape left behind in the fabric where the garment has been cut out.""--Jacket.
• "Of the fifty-eight pieces in Antipoems, the first twenty-three are taken from Parra's 1985 collection, Hojas de Parra ("Vine Leaves" or "Leaves of Parra"), two others appeared in his Paginas en Blanco ("Blank Pages," 2001), while the rest come straight out of his notebooks and have never been collected before, either in Spanish or English. The book itself is divided into two sections, "Antipoems" (im)proper and a selection of Parra's most recent incarnation of the antipoem, the hand-drawn images of his "Visual Artefactos.""

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Parra, Nicanor, 1914-2018 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Liz Werner -- Exchanges -- Watch out for the gospel of the times -- What does an old man gain by exercising -- An advocate for his own cause -- 1979 -- Supersonic death -- Apropos of nothing -- The four elements -- Seven voluntary labors and one seditious act -- To make a long story short -- He's dead -- Under my bed -- Let's rob this dirty old man blind -- The nobel prize -- Canto Primo -- Clara Sandoval -- Coitus interruptus -- I warn you -- Note on the lessons of antipoetry -- Central station -- Something like that -- Declaration of principles -- Mission accomplished -- A resounding zero -- To be or not to be -- Resurrection -- Chimbarango the cat -- Been there done that.

ISBN

0811215970

LCCN

^^2004013266

OCLC

55634040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library