Nicanor Parra, the great Chilean “anti-poet”, one of Latin America’s greatest poets and one of Allen’s dear beloved old friends, died today, it was announced earlier by the President, Michelle Bachelet, who described him as “a singular voice in Western culture”.
He (Parra) reached the extraordinary age of a wise and a wonderful 103!
Here’s his obituary in the New York Times
Here‘s his obituary in the Washington Post
Here is his obituary in El País. (in Spanish), El Mostrador (from Chile)
Here‘s the AP report, Reuters, the BBC…
There’ll be many other notices in the days to come.
Here’s a link to our posting on him back in 2011 (with plenty of links)
and here‘s a link to our posting on the occasion of his 100th birthday celebration
Here’s Nicanor saluting us all, drinking a glass of milk!
Salute. great poet!
I hope you don`t mind me using one of the photos here for a commemorative piece that I`m currently writing on Medium.com
Thank you in advance!
Can’t clear Vivian Selbo’s but the others, just credit as they are on our site. thanks, Peter
I met my husband at a poetry reading, “America” – Nicanor Parra and Allen Ginsberg where the performers, 1987. It may correspond to the picture you post at the St. Marks Poetry project. Nicanor had invited me, I was living in Princeton at the time. Nicanor was a good friend of my parents in Chile, and got in touch when spending a few months in NYC. After the reading, we went off for a few drinks, and Chinese food with Catalina, Nicanor, and a few other people. Allen had also spent some time in Chile, where he stayed at my aunt’s (Raquel Senoret – alias Raka).