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Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra is a mathematician and poet often considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced since Pablo Neruda. He describes himself as an "antipoet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function.
Trying to get away from the conventions of poetry, Parra's poetic language renounces the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopts a more colloquial tone similar to prose. His first collection, "Poemas y Antipoemas" (1954) is a classic of Latin American literature, one of the most influential Spanish poetry collections of the twentieth century, and is cited as an inspiration by American ...
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