Inri Paperback / softback
by Norma Cole, Raul Zurita, William Rowe
Paperback / softback
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A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chile's most celebrated contemporary poets.
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. Ral Zurita's INRI (these are of course the letters nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified, identifying him as Jesus Christ, King of the Jews) is a visionary, prescient response to this atrocity, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile, with its snow-covered cordilleras, fields of wild flowers, empty spaces, and the sparkling sea beyond, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory, prophetic workprophetic in the same way that Jeremiah and Isaiah are prophetic, which is to say unapologetically political is one of the great poems of our new century.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Publication Date:11/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781681372785
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Publication Date:11/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781681372785