Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Susan Utting Where wants cluster and are

Where wants cluster and are at war with each other

funny and profound

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where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws

he details his bemusement in terse

Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Susan Utting Where wants cluster and arePablo de Rokha was one of the great Chilean modernists, but he is arguably known more for his feud with Pablo Neruda and Vicente Huidobro than for his vast and remarkable poetry. De Rokha is relatively unknown outside Chile, and this volume redresses that by offering an introduction to this astonishing body of work, the first comprehensive selection in English. Daniel Borzutkzy calls this book "an event, a monumental work of translation and poetry