Purgatorio
By Chilean poet Raśl ZuritaTranslated by Jeremy Jacobson
ISBN: 0-935480-21-8
Price: $12.00
Pages: 106
"Zurita's quest for
redemption results in a sustained sequence of great power and
beauty on the Atacama desert, a spiritual exercise that
recalls the experience of fellow poet and countryman Pablo
Neruda at Machu Picchu. Scott Jackson's essay on the poet's
use of mathematical concepts offers a valid approach and
serves as a helpful introduction to this formidable
collection."
--Choice
"It's a long time since a poet of the calibre, greatness
and originality of Raśl Zurita has emerged in Chile."
--Ignacio Valente
"Zurita himself also appears repeatedly as a third-person
figure in a disjointed, fragmented narrative embracing...but
not bounded by his search for God, for sanity, for
wholeness."
--Latin America in Books