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INRI by Raul Zurita
An epic poetry collection lays bare the atrocities of the Pinochet regime in Chile
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A VISIONARY elegy, INRI gives voice to the thousands of “disappeared” in the 1970s and, as such, it is an important and arresting work of poetry.
Profoundly moving, it pans across the beautiful landscapes of the country, from its endless coasts and beaches, its snow-covered cordilleras and fields of wildflowers to the vast Atacama desert and the Pacific ocean beyond.
These places are where bodies were thrown from planes and helicopters during the horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship and in the section entitled The Desert, the landscape turns into a massive cemetery, where the voiceless are finally heard: “They cry out, the Chilean desert cries out. No-one would say this could be, but they cry out,” Zurita writes.
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