Poesías completas I: Solo desiertos tu mar

by Raúl Zurita, Luis García Montero (Contributor)

540 pages, Paperback

Published December 3, 2025

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Pilar]

Se me ha hecho cuesta arriba la cadencia de salmodia, con tantos y tantos patrones repetitivos. Es un poemario muy obsesivo, que evoca paisajes cargados de aura matemática y religiosa: versos esculpidos —literalmente— en firmamentos constelados, pampas infinitas, desiertos, pastos, playas y cordilleras, que apuntan a un conflicto con Dios, a la querencia por la patria y a la utopía.