Ecopoems, Storm, & Some Fringe Benefits

An epic bilingual selection of the legendary Chilean poet’s ecopoetry—“Any rock band would love to have half the fans that Parra did” (Alejandro Zambra, The New Yorker)

When Nicanor Parra died at the age of 103 on January 23, 2018, he was memorialized in the press around the world, from El País to the BBC to The New York Times and on, while Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hailed him as “one of the biggest authors of our literature, in our history.” For over half a century New Directions ...