“Not Knowing How to Get There Is What Makes You Great”: A Conversation with Chilean Poet Mario Meléndez, by Ming Di Interviews [email protected] Wed, 01/22/2025 - 15:08 Mario Meléndez / Photo by Marco UgarteRegarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a Chilean poet born in Linares. Among his books are Vuelo subterráneo, El circo de papel, La muerte tiene los días contados, Esperando a Perec, Jardín de escombros, and El mago de la soledad. Selections of poetry have been translated into more than fifteen languages. In 2012 he moved to Italy, and the following year he received the medal of the President of the Italian Republic, awarded by the Don Luigi di Liegro International Foundation. In 2015 he was included in the anthology El canon abierto: Última poesía en español (Visor). In 2017 some of his poems appeared in translation in Poetry magazine. In 2018 he returned to Chile to become the editor in chief of the Vicente Huidobro Foundation. In 2022 RIL editores published his collected works under the title Apuntes para una leyenda (Notes for a legend) and the anthology Réquiem para frutas suicidas (Requiem for suicidal fruit). Ming Di: There have been many influential poets in Chile. Do contemporary Chilean poets of your generation, especially you yourself, feel a kind of pressure or that you are writing under anxiety of influence? How have you managed to make a... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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