{"product_id":"in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead-selected-poems-of-jorge-teillier-9780292781238","title":"In Order to Talk with the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In order to talk with the dead\u003cbr\u003e you have to know how to wait: \u003cbr\u003e they are fearful\u003cbr\u003e like the first steps of a child.\u003cbr\u003e But if we are patient\u003cbr\u003e one day they will answer us\u003cbr\u003e with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, \u003cbr\u003e with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, \u003cbr\u003e with a dark return of birds\u003cbr\u003e before the glance of a girl\u003cbr\u003e who waits motionless on the threshold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-from \"In Order to Talk with the Dead\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReared 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes \u003ci\u003eMuertes y maravillas\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003ePara un pueblo fantasma\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), and \u003ci\u003eCartas para reinas de otras primaveras\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorge Teillier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292781238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of several prestigious awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Prize, Jorge Teillier (1935-1996) spent much of his adult life working as a reviewer and journalist for many of Chile's leading magazines and newspapers. Translator Carolyne Wright is also an award-winning poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40287297339507,"sku":"9.78029E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d20d133b-c2f4-4544-8370-c5a0a7dd3db0.jpg?v=1658237315","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead-selected-poems-of-jorge-teillier-9780292781238","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}