The Art of Dying
By Chilean poet Oscar HahnTranslated by James Hoggard
ISBN: 0-935480-32-3
Price: $10.00
Pages: 96
"Oscar Hahn's significant
Arte de Morir, continuing his popular poetry, vigorously
denounced current Chilean reality."
--Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year
"Through a brilliant and
imaginative language, Hahn speaks of death, life, and horrors,
using elements of the fantastic and the everyday and
creating an almost hallucinatory language and style....a
book that must be in every library of those interested in
Latin American poetry."
--Choice
"The Art of
Dying is poetry of darkness, of fragmentation, of the many
faces of death, often in the guise of a woman. The translator
conveys the spell, delivering crisp English words fleshed out
with sonic and rhythmic devices to capture the melody of the
Spanish."
--Texas Books in Review
"His poetry has
great intensity and originality."
--Pablo Neruda