Poetry & Atrocity
A Bilingual Reading with Poet Raúl Zurita
and Translator Anna Deeny Morales
October 24, 2016 ⋅ 4:30 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101 ⋅ Boston College
Join the renowned Chilean writer and activist, Raúl Zurita, for an
evening of poems from Sky Below: Selected Works and conversation
regarding how poetry seeks to register and face human atrocities.
Raúl Zurita
Born in Chile in 1950, Zurita is one of Latin
America's most celebrated poets. He is the
recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile and the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda.
Anna Deeny Morales
Deeny Morales is a literary critic and translator. She has translated the works of Zurita, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Mercedes Roffé,
among others, and teaches at Georgetown
University.
Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies and the
Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College
[email protected] | www.bc.edu/cloughcenter
this event is free and open to the public
Photo by Anna Deeny Morales