Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Harvard University Press having contracted terminal cancer

having contracted terminal cancer

through fireworks of surreal images

not only the ink stones in Chinese riverbeds

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

and is nowhere

Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Harvard University Press having contracted terminal cancerPablo de Rokha was one of the great Chilean modernists, but he is arguably known more for his feud with Pablo Neruda and Vicente Huidobro than for his vast and remarkable poetry. De Rokha is relatively unknown outside Chile, and this volume redresses that by offering an introduction to this astonishing body of work, the first comprehensive selection in English. Daniel Borzutkzy calls this book "an event, a monumental work of translation and poetry