Nicanor Parra
Chilean poet, mathematician and physicist best known for founding the 'antipoetry' movement. Author of influential works such as Poemas y antipoemas (1954); a major figure in 20th-century Latin American literature and brother of folklorist Violeta Parra.
Books
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1. Poemas Y Antipoemas
A sharply ironic and colloquial collection that breaks with poetic convention, using everyday speech, dark humor, and blunt images to expose social contradictions and the absurdities of modern life; it mixes antiheroic, anti-lyric stances with moral and political critique, turning familiar phrases and objects into vehicles for philosophical skepticism and witty subversion.
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