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Purgatory Poetry Collection, Raúl Zurita Canessa (1979)

November 10, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Raúl Zurita Canessa (b.1950) is a prominent Chilean poet whose work Purgatory is the first of three works based on the poetry of Dante (the other two being Anteparadise [1982], and The New Life [1994]). The late poet C.D. Wright provided the foreword to this English translation from Spanish published by the University of California Press. Wright wrote, ‘Purgatorio is arguably the seminal literary text of Chile’s 9/11/1973, the date of the U.S.-backed military coup led by Augusto Pinochet which overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. With his first published collection, the young Chilean poet began his Dantean trilogy, his long, arduous pilgrimage toward earthly redemption.'”     –Contributor Devin Shepherd

Contributed by Devin Shepherd (University of Arkansas, ’22)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1979, Chile, Chilean Poetry, Latin America, Literature, Military, Poetry, Purgatory, Spanish, Trilogies, Violence, Vita Nuova

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