"It is much more difficult to build a poem than a bridge"

The Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, at the Preciados hotel in Madrid © Luis Sevillano / El Pais

Raúl Zurita wrote poems in the sky, with the wake of planes over New York.

He wrote poems in the Atacama desert, in which he drew the phrase "neither pain nor fear", in reference to the Pinochet dictatorship and in a kind of monumental

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He has, of course, written many poems on paper, many books of a script that has been called telluric, which could also be called magmatic or torrential ...

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