A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of
Chilé's most celebrated contemporary poets.
Raúl Zurita's INRI is a visionary response to the atrocities committed
under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. In this deeply
moving elegy for the dead, the whole of Chile, with its snow-covered
cordilleras and fields of wildflowers, its empty spaces and the
sparkling sea beyond, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of
its lost children and their living and risen body. Zurita's incantatory,
unapologetically political work is one of the great prophetic poems of
our new century.