Grolier Poetry Book Shop Spring Reading Series

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Raul Zurita 

And William Rowe Translator

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Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.

William Rowe has translated many Latin American poets, including Rodolfo Hinostroza, Juan L Ortiz, Hugo Gola, Lorenzo García Vega, Raúl Zurita, Antonio Cisneros. His Collected Poems were published in 2016 by Richard Parker’s Crater Press. A new revised edition of his translation of INRI by Raúl Zurita came out in December from New York Review of Books. And his translation with glosses of César Vallejo’s Trilce will be out from Crater in the near future.