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Los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra.

El último apaga la luz es una amplia y cuidada selección de la obra de quien según Harold Bloom (es incuestionablemente uno de los mejores poetas de Occidente). El libro abarca desde el inaugural Poemas y antipoemas (que se incluye íntegro) hasta los Discursos de sobremesa, pasando por Canciones rusas, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui, Lear, rey & mendigo y Hojas de Parra (que por su centralidad en el proyecto antipoético también se incluye entero), más algunos poemas dispersos como Quédate con tu Borges o El rap de la Sagrada Familia

Seleccionados por Matías Rivas, los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra, una gran puerta de entrada para quienes no conozcan cabalmente la antipoesía y, a la vez, la mejor síntesis para quienes ya la admiran, la estudian o, simplemente, la leen con renovada passion.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

These selected poems make up what is thought of as the essential legacy of Nicanor Parra.

The Last One Out Shuts the Lights is a broad and carefully selected collection of the work by an author who according to Harold Bloom, is unquestionably one of the best poets of the Western hemisphere.

The book goes from his beginnings in Poemas y antipoemas / Poems and Antipoems which are included in their entirety, to Discursos de sobremesa / After-Dinner Declarations and Canciones rusas / Russian Songs , Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui / Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui, Lear, Rey & Mendigo / Lear, King & Beggar, and Hojas de Parra / Grape Leaves. Pages of Parra, also included in its entirety, among others.

Selected by Matias Rivas, these essential Nicanor Parra poems are a great gateway for those who aren't too familiar with antipoetry, and also are a perfect selection for those who already admire it, study it, or like to reread it with renewed passion.

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Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile on September 15, 1914. He received degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Chile in 1938. He later studied mechanics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and cosmology at the University of Oxford in England. He taught theoretical physics at the University of Chile for decades.

He was a poet who pioneered the literary movement that became known as anti-poetry. He published his first book, Singer Without a Name, in 1937. His other books include Poems and Antipoems, Emergency Poems, Artifacts, and The Sermons and Teachings of the Christ of Elqui. In 1963, he spent six months in the Soviet Union translating the work of several Soviet poets into Spanish. He received Chile's National Literary Prize in 1969 and the Cervantes Prize in 2011. He died on January 23, 2018 at the age of 103.

(Bowker Author Biography)