{"product_id":"9780292781238","title":"In Order to Talk with the Dead : Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier (Texas Pan American Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In order to talk with the dead\n\u003cbr\u003e you have to know how to wait:\n\u003cbr\u003e they are fearful\n\u003cbr\u003e like the first steps of a child.\n\u003cbr\u003e But if we are patient\n\u003cbr\u003e one day they will answer us\n\u003cbr\u003e with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror,\n\u003cbr\u003e with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace,\n\u003cbr\u003e with a dark return of birds\n\u003cbr\u003e before the glance of a girl\n\u003cbr\u003e who waits motionless on the threshold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-from \"In Order to Talk with the Dead\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarolyne 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667846443243,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":36.53,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780292781238-1.jpg?v=1781614141","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780292781238","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}