Based on his pursuit of literary renewal, Nicanor Parra is one of the most innovative poets of the Spanish language. He is considered the greatest living Chilean poet and--along with Vicente Huidobro,...
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In the following interview, Williams and Parra discuss major influences on Parra's work and his development of the surrealist school of poetry in Chile.
Nicanor Parra is one of the best know...
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In the following review, Rosenthal finds Emergency Poems somewhat lacking in depth but notes that when Parra avoids being overly literary his poems continue to be brilliant expressions of the common h...
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In the following essay, Melnykovich considers Parra's perception that his work is a failure given the intentions of antipoetry.
Since the publication of Poems and Antipoems (1957), Nicanor P...
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In the following essay, Grossman presents an overview of the notion of antipoetry and Parra's use of the concept in his work.
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Nicanor Parra has been a poet for most of his life and ...
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In the following essay, Brotherston discusses Parra's role in the development of modern Chilean poetry.
Like other Chileans of his generation, Nicanor Parra has faced the large problem of ho...
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In the following essay, Van Hooft focuses on Parra's poetic persona's excoriation of contemporary institutions, including sexual stereotyping and Freudian analysis, that have led to the ...
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In the following excerpted essay, Gutiérrez-Mouat explains the political aspects of Parra's poetry in the context of Chilean literary politics.
Parra has influenced and been translate...
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In the following interview, Gautier and Parra discuss his later work, in particular his commitment to what he calls “eco-poetry.”
Nicanor Parra was born on September 5, 1914, in Chill...
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In the following essay, Skármeta presents an overview of Parra's poetry, particularly his work in the vein of antipoetry.
Nicanor Parra was born in San Fabián, near Chill...
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In the following essay, Mejia discusses Parra's work after 1968 in the context of the transition from surrealism to postmodernism in Latin American poetry.
In the years between 1954 and 1968...
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In the following essay, MacShane discusses a controversial performance of Parra's Hojas de Parra in Chile.
For years Nicanor Parra has kept silent. Then, some months ago, his poetry was hear...
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In the following essay, Van Hooft analyzes the role of women in Parra's poetry and their relationship to the male protagonists of his poems. She asserts that Parra attacks social institutions a...
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In the following essay, Agosin asserts that Parra's Poems and Anti-poems influenced Pablo Neruda's Extravagaria.
Contemporary Chilean poetry represents a rich and vital lyric within S...
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In the following review, the critic praises Parra's Antipoems: New and Selected for reading as naturally as prose.
In any age, poetry, by its solitary and elitist nature, produces few heroes...
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In the following review, Corey asserts that Parra's Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui "is far more satisfying as a whole than for its individual parts."
Sometime in t...
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In the following review, Tammaro praises Parra's Antipoems: New and Selected.
Chilean poet and physicist Parra comes from the great tradition of Latin American writers who are outspoken oppo...
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In the following essay, Lopez Mejia traces Parra's attitude toward authority as expressed in his poetry.
In the years between 1954 and 1968, Nicanor Parra published various poems that refer ...
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In the following review, Hill asserts that Parra's Poemas para combatir la calvicie "makes painfully clear that the antipoet's latest work does not stand up to antipoetry."...
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Nicanor Parra
Interview by Nicanor Parra and Miller Williams
