{"product_id":"in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead","title":"In Order to Talk with the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In order to talk with the dead\u003cbr\u003e you have to know how to wait:\u003cbr\u003e they are fearful\u003cbr\u003e like the first steps of a child.\u003cbr\u003e But if we are patient\u003cbr\u003e one day they will answer us\u003cbr\u003e with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror,\u003cbr\u003e with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace,\u003cbr\u003e with a dark return of birds\u003cbr\u003e before the glance of a girl\u003cbr\u003e who waits motionless on the threshold.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from \"In Order to Talk with the Dead\"\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003eCarolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes \u003ci\u003eMuertes y maravillas\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003ePara un pueblo fantasma\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), and \u003ci\u003eCartas para reinas de otras primaveras\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Jorge Teillier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615855042940,"sku":"9780292781238","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780292781238.jpg?v=1741268366","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-order-to-talk-with-the-dead","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}