Anteparadise, A Bilingual edition
Perhaps first-hand experience of Chile is necessary before the reader of these poems feels anything close to the translator's reaction to them. When he was first introduced to Zurita's poetry, Schmitt writes, it "haunted me, even gave me nightmares," but the emotions that affected him so strongly may not be felt by others. If Zurita's writing embodies a "unique poetic structure," it is also awkward, at least in translation ("Cold is the dawn of the lost/ awakened these landscapes shouting") and, above all, repetitive: the words "Chile," "cordillera," and "Andes," and sometimes all three, appear on virtually every page. For libraries with large Latin American collections only. David Kirby, English Dept., Florida State Univ., TallahasseeCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.