Oscar Hahn’s The Subtle Folds of Shadows

Description

Dialogos / Lavender Ink, paperback

Translated by G. J. Racz

Publication Date: May 1, 2024

Publisher Marketing: The Subtle Folds of Shadows is a bilingual selection of poems from ten collections of verse by the Chilean writer Óscar Hahn. Spanning the author’s more than six-decade career, these works, selected and translated by G. J. Racz, reflect Hahn’s signature themes: the sometimes adversarial nature of love, meditations on existence, fantasias on historical figures, the poetic tradition, the folly of humankind, and the horrors of political oppression. Hahn handles these often ontic, even fantastic subjects in a variety of poetic styles, from rhyming sonnets to free verse, showcasing a formal versatility that has made his voice one of the most compelling and enduring in Latin American literature to this day.

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