AUTHOR: Raúl Zurita
READ: September
THOUGHTS: I really enjoyed this book of poems, and was almost certain that Zurita was used as inspiration for Bolano in his own works (specifically the sky-writing poems). These poems are very heavy; they establish a tone of confusion, tenderness, and desperation that grows exaggerated as the book progresses. Everything becomes a bit more dark and obscure. The religious imagery was closer to an Eckheartian mysticism than any sort of promulgation of conventional Catholicism, despite the Dante title; the central images are deserts, the empty sky, etc. Really neat.
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