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Raúl Zurita


Born
in Santiago, Chile
January 10, 1950

Genre
Poetry


Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. In 1982 five airplanes wrote his poem “La Vida Nueva” in the sky above New York City, and in 1993 he had the phrase “NEITHER PAIN NOR FEAR” bulldozed into the Atacama Desert in a permanent, two-mile-long installation, visible only from above. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.

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Tu vida rompiéndose
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El día más blanco
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Poemas de amor
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“La generación sudaca canta folk, baila rock, pero todos se están muriendo con la vista vendada en la barriga de los galpones.”
― Raúl Zurita, Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido
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“¿Fumas marihuana? ¿Aspiras neoprén? ¿Qué mierda fumas rojo asqueroso?”
― Raúl Zurita, Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido
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“Me paré frente a ti como ante un altar.
Todas las promesas que hice antes las rompí al verte”
― Raúl Zurita, Tu vida rompiéndose
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