The (Anti) Poet

A lot of Chilean people think Pablo Neruda is the best poet ever. When they say “Chile, country of poets” in general they are thinking in Neruda or Mistral, our two Nobel. I think this is a horrible mistake, because Nicanor Parra has been forget.

I think there are not something more poetic than the antipoetry of Parra. He demolished the classic structure of the verses as much is possible. He takes the idyllic and distant poetry and converts it in something ordinary and human. In other words, he put in the street and houses something that always belonged to libraries of the high classes.

Nicanor Parra began to inspire on the common, the routine, the injustice, also he inspired on love, but a Chilean love, something more picaresque.In sum, he did an act of rebellion and gave to the people the faculty to express them interiority in an easy way. He gave to the people the opportunity to reclaims and up in arms from de verses. He killed the traditional poetry.