The Country of Planks
Raul Zurita
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Description
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky. In Zurita's writing, these are the realities of a contaminated, homicidal nation. The shame of the political has been absorbed by the natural. The blood and the bodies of the disappeared, now scattered throughout the landscape, have become part of the homeland, the Chilean soil. It's a rhetoric of shame, of loss, of unquantifiable and unspeakable violence.--Daniel Borzutzky
Product Details
| Publisher | Action Books |
| Publish Date | April 15, 2015 |
| Pages | 246 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780989804851 |
| Dimensions | 7.8 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Raúl Zurita's books of poems include, among others: Purgatorio (1979), Anteparaíso (1982), El paraíso está vacío (1984), Canto a su amor desaparecido (1985), La vida nueva (1994), Poemas militantes (2000), INRI (2003), Los países muertos (2006), Las ciudades de agua (2007), In Memoriam (2007), Cuadernos de guerra (2009), Sueños para Kurosawa (2010), Zurita (2011), and EL PAÍS DE TABLAS (2015). Translations to English include Purgatory, Anteparadaise, INRI, SONG FOR HIS DISAPPEARED LOVE (Action Books, 2010), Dreams for Kurosawa, Militant Poems, and THE COUNTRY OF PLANKS (Action Books, 2015). His numerous awards include the National Literature Prize of Chile and the Pablo Neruda Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile, where he is a professor of literature at Universidad Diego Portales.
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