DAVID UNGER, recipient of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize, has translated eighteen titles, including Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Mr. President, The Popol Vuh, and books by Enrique Lihn, Nicanor Parra, Rigoberta Menchú, and Silvia Molina.
Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Cohen and David Unger
With a contribution by Roberto Brodsky
Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, and Pablo Neruda. Lihn’s first two poetry books represented here—Nada se escurre (Nothing Slips Away), 1949, and Poemas de este tiempo y de otro, (Poems of This Time and Another), 1955—introduce his dark, lyric genius and existential intensity. These works sounded an early alarm, announcing that a new voice had been born within the rich and unrestrained tradition of Chilean poetry. This current volume contains a marvelous selection of Lihn’s pioneering early work, translated exquisitely by Jonathan Cohen and David Unger, and introduced by the Chilean journalist and Lihn scholar Roberto Brodsky.
Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Cohen, David Unger and John Felstiner
The Dark Room presents in a compact bilingual selection the extraordinary poetry of Enrique Lihn (1929-1988), winner of the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize and one of Chile’s most remarkable writers. Gathered here is Lihn’s most representative work from 1963 to 1977, drawn from his major books.
