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Unreal Cities: Raul Zurita with Anna Deeny

Posted on 15 April 2010

Purgatory by Raul Zurita. UC Press 2009

The renowned Chilean poet Raul Zurita’s book, Purgatory, responds in broken and multiple forms to the brokenness of experience in Pinochet’s Chile in the 1970’s.  With the help of Anna Deeny, the poet and translator of Zurita into English, I spoke with Zurita in spring 2009.   The bilingual editon of  Purgatory, translated beautifully and with an afterword by Deeny (and a forward by the poet C.D. Wright), was published by the University of California Press in 2009.  Zurita and Deeny will be reading together at Poet’s House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY on May 6, 2010, at 7pm.

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