On a summer visit to Chile, TMS assistant editor Audrey Ryback explores the connections between two of the greatest poets of the twentieth-century, Pablo Neruda and Nicanor Parra... "Parra advocates “the poetry of ideas”, but also poetry whose “sunbeams must arrive to everyone equally/ Poetry in reach of everybody”. Parra’s poet is not “an alchemist” but simply “a man like every other man/ A mason who constructs his walls/ a constructor of doors and windows”. Neruda’s poetic self is less of a working man and more of a romantic. His style is almost the antithesis of Parra’s: Neruda is inspired by objects, by the sea, by “the big tuna at the market”, composing with delicacy and richness Ode to the Tomato, Ode to my Socks, Ode to Salt. He could draw out the beauty of the simplest or most trivial of things..." themissingslate/2013/07/22/the-antipoets-home/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:41:04 +0000
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