ISBN 978-1935084167
\n330 pages: $26.95
\nAugust, 2013<\/p>\n
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Chile is rich with poetic history, yet in the U.S., Chilean poetry is known through only a handful of its great poets. Little recent poetry has been translated, so it is hard for even those enchanted by Chilean poetry to learn more unless they speak Spanish. Many of these living poets are doing fascinating work, creating their own poetry, but also fostering the literary community in Chile and Latin America by starting presses and reading series, by editing journals and by giving presentations. Their energy is apparent in the translations.<\/p>\n
This book shows the continuation of Chile\u2019s cultural history, but it also shows the diversity of Chile\u2019s contemporary poetry through lyrical, experimental, political, social, and many other types of poetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Alteration of Silence is a sister project to\u00a0La Alteraci\u00f3n del Silencio: Poes\u00eda Norteamericana Reciente<\/em><\/strong>, also edited by Galo Ghigliotto and William Allegreza, a book which contained the work of twenty-five contemporary American poets translated into Spanish.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once, the historian Arnold Toynbee apparently named Chile as a \u201ccountry of the future,\u201d which Adan Mendez calls \u201cinexplicable\u201d in one of his poems. The explanation, though, might be the moving bounty of poetry continuing to come out of Chile since she birthed \u201cthe first Spanish poetic expression known in the Americas\u2026 La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Z\u00fa\u00f1iga,\u201d as well as Latin America\u2019s first two Nobel Prize winners Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1970).\u00a0 For Chile\u2019s contemporary poets are writing energetic poems with fresh forms, musics and perspectives which deserve wider exposure on the global stage. Chile\u2019s poets are pushing forward the known limits of poetry with compelling poems\u2014if these poems\u2019 invitations to be inhabited are eagerly accepted, they also will share something about the hunger, astonishment, radiance, grief and desire that stews together to form Chile: \u201cThe blazing light of the sun \/…Pouring heat on my body \/ Letting it live burning it gradually \/\/ Come see this burning.\u201d <\/p>\n This edition places one of Latin America\u2019s most celebrated living poets, Ra\u00fal Zurita, alongside writers of younger generations.\u00a0 It successfully does away with the delays that slow or halt inter-American conversations by presenting previously untranslated work in a bilingual format.\u00a0 The translators, many of whom are poets themselves, construct a dynamic portrait of a diverse poetic world.\u00a0 They introduce readers not only to the range and depth of poetry coming out of contemporary Chile, but to the writers who lead cultural conversations around that nation today through parallel work with magazines, presses, and the organization of events. <\/p>\n Contributors to\u00a0The Alteration of Silence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0include the following poets: <\/p>\n Translated by the following translators: Galo Ghigliotto \/ William Allegrezza, Eds
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\n\u2014Eileen R. Tabios<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Kristin Dykstra<\/p>\n
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\nAd\u00e1n M\u00e9ndez, Alejandro Zambra, Alexis Figueroa , Cami lo Brodsky, C\u00e9sar Cabello, Elizabeth Neira, Germ\u00e1n Carrasco, Gustavo Barrera , Jaim e Huen\u00fan Rodrigo Morales, Soledad Fari\u00f1a, Sergio Coddou, Victor Hugo D\u00edaz, Yanko Gonz\u00e1lez, Carlos Coci\u00f1a, \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Christian Formoso, Carlos Soto Rom\u00e1n, Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Cuevas, Carmen Berenguer, Elvira Hern\u00e1ndez, Mal\u00fa Urriola, H\u00e9ctor Hern\u00e1ndez Montecinos, Galo Ghigliotto. Carlos Henrickson, Ra\u00fal Zurita, Leonardo Sanhueza, Gloria D\u00fcnkler, and Jaime Pinos.<\/p>\n
\nDaniel Borzutzky, Irma Blanco Casey, Stuart Cooke. John Dewitt, Edgar Garcia, Lea Graham, Paul Hendricks, Rebeka Lembo, Ricardo Maldonado, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, J.D. Smith, and Donald Wellman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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