Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great [Paperback]

Real seriousness, Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in the comic. And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed. It is an abundant offering of his signature mocking humor, subverting received conventions and pretensions in both poetry and everyday life, public and private, ingeniously and wittily rendered into English in an antitranslation (the word is Parra's) by Liz Werner. Of the fifty-eight pieces inA poet with all the authority of a master.One of the great names in the literature of our language.Witty, irreverent, and penetrating insights into the absurdities and contradictions of modern life.Includes a great introduction to Parra and his work by the translator that effortlessly mixes personal anecdote and historical context.The first major collection in almost twenty years of new work by one of Latin America's greatest poets.