{"product_id":"sky-below-selected-works-9780810133846","title":"Sky Below: Selected Works","description":"Ra?l Zurita has long been recognized as one of the most important poetic voices in the Americas today. His compelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public and most intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume of selected works is the first of its kind in any language, representing the remarkable range of this extraordinary poet. Zurita's work confronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerful urgency matched by his extraordinary craftsmanship and imaginative vision. In his attempt to address the atrocities that indelibly mark our continents, he makes manifest the common history of the Americas through the history and literature of Chile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRAÚL ZURITA\u003c\/b\u003e, a prolific poet and visual artist, has chronicled the violence against the Chilean people since the 1973 coup that replaced Salvador Allende's democratic government with Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. His work has been widely translated. Along with other artists, he founded the art action group CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte), dedicated to the creation of political art resisting the military regime. In 1982 he composed a poem in the sky over New York, and in 1993 he bulldozed \"\u003ci\u003eni pena ni miedo\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\"no pain no fear\") into the coarse sands of the Atacama Desert. Zurita has been awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature and a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a professor emeritus at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eANNA DEENY MORALES is a literary critic and translator. Her translations of Raúl Zurita's works include \u003ci\u003ePurgatory \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDreams for Kurosawa\u003c\/i\u003e. Her translation of \u003ci\u003eFloating Lanterns \u003c\/i\u003eby Mercedes Roffé was published in 2015, and her essays and translations of poetry by Alejandra Pizarnik, Nicanor Parra, and Gabriela Mistral, among others, have appeared in such anthologies as \u003ci\u003ePinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America \u003c\/i\u003eand in journals, including the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMandorla\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches in the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461261889810,"sku":"9780810133846","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb10bdc1-4c2a-42ce-b758-c4f424d63980.jpg?v=1730061631","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sky-below-selected-works-9780810133846","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}