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When it comes to Chile, it's not a bad idea to compare poets to mountains, especially when it comes to two giants of poetry such as Nicanor Parra and Gonzalo Rojas. The former is 94 years old and the latter 92, and both have more spark than many post-modern teenagers. Both are from Chile's Bio-Bio region and come from popular provincial families. The Parra family has produced some of Chile's most profound and authentic voices, including the renowned folk singer Violeta Parra, the poet's late sister.
Nicanor Parra describes himself as "the oldest son of an elementary school teacher and a piecework seamstress." Gonzalo Rojas is the son of a miner, who died when the poet was only four years old, and a taciturn mother who raised six children by herself. The path for both men has been long and winding. Both studied at the Barros Arana high school and the University of Chile's Pedagogical Institute, century-old public institutions through which many notable Chilean writers and artists have passed.
The two poets have been perceptive witnesses to their time and to their country, that narrow, elongated creature with its head in the northern...
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