Poesía 1947-1954

by Enrique Lihn, Pedro Lastra (Foreword), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Contributor)

Este libro reúne en un estuche los dos primeros poemarios de Enrique Lihn: Nada se escurre (1949) y Poemas de este tiempo y de otro (1955), que ya muestran el genio y la intensidad existencial de su poesía. Ambos libros llevan prólogos de Pedro Lastra y un texto inédito de Alejandro Jodorowsky con ilustraciones del propio Lihn.

Poemas de este tiempo y de otro
Nada se escurre

Prólogos por Pedro Lastra
Texto de «La odisea de Enrique Lihn» por Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ilustraciones por Enrique Lihn

Genres: Poetry

130 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram and they had one daughter: Andrea María Lihn Mingram, an actress.

Born in 1929 at Santiago, Chile, Lihn aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt during university, he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. Lihn proceeded to develop into a poet, playwright, and novelist. He taught literature at the University of Chile. Lihn views both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his contempt for the contemporary dictatorship, as Chile was governed by a military junta. Works layered with social, political, and religious commentary are common throughout Lihn's canon. His final book, Diario de Muerte was written in the six weeks preceding his death from cancer in Santiago, and the evening before he died, he corrected the proofs.

Reviews

[Rodrigo Fernández · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lihn ya no me hace nada. Pienso: qué inteligente, qué bien estructurado este verso. Sé que es un chocolate, pero ya no le hallo el sabor. Pero soy yo, no es él, y por eso tres estrellas y no dos.