Sky Below
Selected Works

Raúl Zurita (Author)

9780810133846

Paperback / softback, published 15 October 2016

310 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.542 kg

Chilean poet Raúl Zurita has long been recognized as one of themost celebrated and important voices from Latin America. Hiscompelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public andmost intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume ofselected works is the first of its kind in any language, representingthe remarkable range of an extraordinary poet. Zurita’s workconfronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerfulurgency matched by remarkable craftsmanship and imaginativevision. In Zurita’s attempt to address the atrocities that indeliblymark Chile, he makes manifest the common history of theAmericas.