Did you know that Chile is affectionately known as país de poetas (country of poets)?
Since this month is National Poetry Month, I thought to include some alluring Chilean poetry here in this post. However, the piece which struck me the most wasn’t a work of beauty, but this scathing snippet which one Chilean poet dedicated to another poet in their ongoing public fight. I’m sure my take on this would be different if I were living in Chile during the 1960s, but it strikes me as absolutely hilarious now:
“Senile hypocrite and robber
of dirty monkey poetry,
your belly is bloated with money.”
I’m also astounded to see poets publicly fighting by flinging poetry at one another! Aren’t you?
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