Nicanor Parra

Chilean poet and physicist (1914–2018)

Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century. . Parra described himself as an "anti-poet" on account of his distaste for poetry's pompous pretences. After his recitations, he would say: "Me retracto de todo lo dicho." ("I take back everything I've said.") Life. Parra, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, near Chillán, in Chile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicanor_Parra

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