Parras and nerudas exchanges were always based on sincere recognition and mutual reticence. Parra described himself as an antipoet, due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function. Nicanor parra, born september 5, 1914, san fabian, chiledied january 23, 2018, santiago, one of the most important latin american poets of his time, the originator of socalled antipoetry poetry that opposes traditional poetic techniques or styles parra studied mathematics and physics at the university of chile in santiago. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Nicanor parra at isbn isbn get this from a library. Remembering nicanor parra, the almost immortal chilean. The fundamental question that needs to be resolved in any approach to parras technique is why he invariably uses the glaringly prosaic discourse that characterizes antipoetry. Le sue opere hanno avuto una profonda influenza nella letteratura ispanoamericana. As parra seeks to unravel the linguistic structures of the original, he reveals the meters of popular language imposed on the formal meters of shakespeares blank verse. He was considered an influential poet in chile and throughout latin america. Nicanor segundo parra sandoval 5 september 1914 23 january 2018 was a chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. And it was nicanor parra whose job it was to read the welcome speech when pablo neruda was invited to join the university of chile as an academic member in 1962. Nicanor parra, an eminent chilean scientistturnedpoet who revolutionized latin american verse by rejecting its flowery diction and forging a strippeddown, confrontational and darkly comic form. Neruda welcomed the publication of poemas y antipoemas with warm approval in 1954.
Parra is known as the founder of antipoetrya term coined by the poet to. Nicanor parra was trained as a mathematician and physicist at brown university and at oxford, where he came to embrace principles of relarivity in a physical mode, principles that carry over into cl1e epistemological concerns of his poems. Comments about warnings by nicanor parra hugh kearns 10142019 6. The following entry presents an overview of parras career.
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