In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier (Texas Pan American Series)

Name: In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier (Texas Pan American Series)
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By Jorge Teillier

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"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." —from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"
Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.
Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore." .

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 129
Release Date:: 1993-04-01
Publication Date:: 1993-04-01
Publisher:: University of Texas Press
Languages:: Published: English, Published: Spanish, Original: Spanish
ISBN10:: 0292738676
Weight:: 454 g

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