{"product_id":"antipoems-how-to-look-better-feel-great-9780811215978","title":"Antipoems: How to Look Better \u0026 Feel Great","description":"\"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 in \u003cem\u003eAntipoems\u003c\/em\u003e, the first twenty-three are taken from Parra's 1985 collection, \u003cem\u003eHojas de Parra\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Vine Leaves\" or \"Leaves of Parra\"), two others appeared in his \u003cem\u003ePaginas en Blanco\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Blank Pages,\" 2001), while the rest come straight out of his notebooks and have never been published before, either in Spanish or English. The book itself is divided into two sections, \"Antipoems\" (im)proper and a selection of Parra's most recent incarnation of the antipoem, the hand-drawn images of his \"Visual Artefactos.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As his anti-translator Liz Werner explains in her Introduction, Parra's scientific training infuses his work. \"Viewed through the lens of antimatter,\" she writes, \"antipoetry mirrors poetry, not as its adversary but as its perfect complement.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParra, Nicanor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in 1914 in the southern city of Chillán, \u003cstrong\u003eNicanor Parra\u003c\/strong\u003e studied at the University of Chile, Brown, and Oxford, and spent many years as a teacher of mathematics and a professor of physics.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWerner, Liz Fania:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Fania Werner\u003c\/strong\u003e has lived and studied in Valparaíso, Chile. She recently completed an antiwar public poetry installation, Blackout Poems, and is currently working on her first novel and conducting poetry-writing workshops in a juvenile detention center in her native New York City.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503912522002,"sku":"9780811215978","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b2f7052-49a4-4ae8-ab22-86799993a165.jpg?v=1730804042","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/antipoems-how-to-look-better-feel-great-9780811215978","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}