Bibliograph

Inri, Raúl Zurita ; translated by William Rowe ; preface by Norma Cole

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Label

Inri, Raúl Zurita ; translated by William Rowe ; preface by Norma Cole

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Inri

Oclc number

1029225198

Responsibility statement

Raúl Zurita ; translated by William Rowe ; preface by Norma Cole

Series statement

NYRB/poets

Summary

"In 2001, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The victims had been flown up in planes and, after having their eyes gouged out, were ejected over the mountains and deserts of Chile or the Pacific Ocean. Raúl Zurita's INRI is a visionary, prescient response to this atrocity, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory, prophetic work-- which is to say unapologetically political-- is one of the great poems of our new century"--, Provided by publisher

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