Parra Poems - Poems about Parra

...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......Read the rest...

...I have a child; I have some children; And though I didn't Didn't co create them; Always be there when they cry; My children have beautiful eyes; I choose to honor; You to should......Read the rest...

...We adults must come through, united; We the watchers of others children, must step up to the challenge; For all we do; we must do, choose Everyone is every one Your child we share W......Read the rest...

...Yes, we are the future, We’re of a new age; Yes, we are the new troopers; New soldiers on the new page We are God’s children We are His vision We are our parent’s new dreams L......Read the rest...

...Limerick crochetés: Once a blaring braying bold trumpet for Nicanor PARRA Once a blaring braying bold trumpet Used to serenading mere strumpet Could not hold back loud fart While e......Read the rest...

...I saw thee standing on the Parra grass With all thine elegance and daintiness Thy pulchritude is like an expensive glass Oh! Thou art the image of my happiness. On thy hands is rolling rope A......Read the rest...

... Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan (Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour......Read the rest...

... Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan To come by a happy day (In this poem, Parra maintains lines of twelve to thirteen syllables with every other line ......Read the rest...

...Proyecto de tren instantaneo entre Santiago y Puerto Montt by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan (Homage to Nicanor......Read the rest...

...Viva la Cordillera de los Andes by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan Long Live! The Andes Mountain Range! I’m seized with a mad rage to yell long live the Andes Mountain Ran......Read the rest...

... Madrigal (Although the poem’s title takes on a well-known 16th Century form of Italian origin, made famous in Spain by Gutierre de Cetina, 1520-1554, here,......Read the rest...

... The Test by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan What’s an antipoet: a trader in urns and coffins? a priest who does not believe in anything? a general who entertains doubts abou......Read the rest...

... Poetry has washed its hands off me by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan I don’t say I'm done with everything I don’t feel deluded in this respect I would have liked continuing......Read the rest...

...Letters to an Unknown Woman by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan When years go by, when years go by and the air having excavated a ditch between your soul and mine, when years hurry p......Read the rest...

... The Imaginary Man by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan The imaginary man lived in an imaginary house in the midst of imaginary trees on the bank of an imaginary river From wall......Read the rest...