Corriendo Bajo la Lluvia: Poesia Escogida 1982-1998
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Description
Born in the south of Chile, but living and writing in the U.S. for the past thirty years, Raúl Barrientos eludes the easy categories: Latin American, Latino, American. All of these, and more. Yet always a poet, turning whatever he touches into startling imagery and gritty, enduring verse. These poems trace a trajectory from the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile to a difficult end-of-millennium in Manhattan. They give the reader a privileged view of a long and continually productive career in poetry--and a glimpse of the life behind it.
Product Details
Price
$38.00
$35.34
Publisher
Swan Isle Press
Publish Date
April 01, 2005
Pages
257
Dimensions
6.24 X 9.3 X 0.49 inches | 1.22 pounds
Language
Spanish
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780967880846
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About the Author
Raúl Barrientos was born in Puerto Montt, a small town in the south of Chile. He studied at the Unversidad de Concepcion, where he later became professor of theater. After the 1973 military coup he left Chile for the United States and pursued advanced studies in Spanish-American literatures at the University of Pennsylvania and SUNY-Stony Brook. He has published nine volumes of poetry.
Reviews
"It is easy to sense the incantatory, nightmarish linguistic fire. . . . The publication of [Corriendo bajo la lluvia] is an occasion for optimism in terms of restoring lost dialogues and creating new ones at a time when, more than ever, perhaps, one can appreciate the therapeutic value of the poetic word as it joins readers from different generations and places in its secret, mycelial life."--Steven F. White "Review Magazine" (1/1/2005 12:00:00 AM)
