Purgatory: A Bilingual Edition

Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master. This beautiful en face edition, superbly translated by Anna Deeny, brings to English—language readers an indispensable volume written by one of the most important living poets writing in Spanish today. Zurita was a 24—y...