In Order to Talk With the Dead Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier

Reared in the rainy forests of Chile' "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile' 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."Teillier, Jorge is the author of 'In Order to Talk With the Dead Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier', published 0009 under ISBN 9780292738676 and ISBN 0292738676.