{"product_id":"in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead-1","title":"In Order to Talk with the Dead","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"quote\"\u003e\"In order to talk with the dead\u003cbr\u003e\nyou have to know how to wait:\u003cbr\u003e\nthey are fearful\u003cbr\u003e\nlike the first steps of a child.\u003cbr\u003e\nBut if we are patient\u003cbr\u003e\none day they will answer us\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror,\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace,\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a dark return of birds\u003cbr\u003e\nbefore the glance of a girl\u003cbr\u003e\nwho waits motionless on the threshold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"source\"\u003e—from \"In Order to Talk with the Dead\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eReared in the rainy forests of Chile's \"La Frontera\" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes \u003ccite\u003eMuertes y maravillas\u003c\/cite\u003e (1971), \u003ccite\u003ePara un pueblo fantasma\u003c\/cite\u003e (1978), and \u003ccite\u003eCartas para reinas de otras primaveras\u003c\/cite\u003e (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the \"Land of Nevermore.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jorge Teillier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572734623926,"sku":"9780292753587","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_dc1d2d5d-182f-4806-900c-99754f6e9b11.jpg?v=1746711880","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}