Corriendo Bajo la Lluvia / Running Back Through the Rain Poesia Escogida / Selected Poems 1982-1998 |
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| Author:
| Barrientos, Raúl |
| Translator:
| Heller, Ben A.
Maurer, Christopher |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9678808-4-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2005 |
| Publisher: | Swan Isle Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Born in the south of Chile, but living and writing in the U.S. for the past thirty years, Raúl Barrientos eludes the easy categories: Latin American, Latino, American. All of these, and more. Yet always a poet, turning whatever he touches into startling imagery and gritty, enduring verse. These poems trace a trajectory from the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile to a difficult end-of-millennium in Manhattan. They give the reader a privileged view of a long and continually productive career...
More DescriptionBorn in the south of Chile, but living and writing in the U.S. for the past thirty years, Raúl Barrientos eludes the easy categories: Latin American, Latino, American. All of these, and more. Yet always a poet, turning whatever he touches into startling imagery and gritty, enduring verse. These poems trace a trajectory from the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile to a difficult end-of-millennium in Manhattan. They give the reader a privileged view of a long and continually productive career in poetry--and a glimpse of the life behind it.