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Parra, Nicanor, 1914-2018

Series 1, Thomas Merton and Nicanor Parra Correspondence

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1965-1967, 1969
Volume:	32 item(s); 47 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Parra, Nicanor".

Nicanor Parra distinguished himself as the most prominent Chilean poet, or antipoet, of the Generation of 1938. In 1935, he and friends started Revista Nueva. The surrealism of Pablo Neruda and the writing of Garcia Lorca among others influenced

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Series List

Series Number	Series Name	Total Records
1	Thomas Merton and Nicanor Parra Correspondence	7
2	James Laughlin and Nicanor Parra Correspondence	25

Container List

Series#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
Series 1 #1. «All Series«	1965/03/20	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks very much for the two books of poems, which you sent me some time ago. You seemed	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #2. «All Series«	1965/06/08?	HLS to Merton	sus traducciones me parecen optimas. Muchas, pero muchísimas gracias. Solo hay una que otra		«detailed view»
Series 1 #3. «All Series«	1965/06/12	TAL[c] from Merton	Acabo de recibir tu carta y estoy muy contento. Estaba en el punto de escribirte porque una revista	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #4. «All Series«	1965/07/26	HLS to Merton	los estudios de Relatividad me teman prácticamente fuera del mundo. Busco un método más sencillo		«detailed view»
Series 1 #5. «All Series«	1966/06/no?	HPCS[x] to Merton	Tenemos que volver vernos. Alguin vez. Nicanor. Father Louis we have been speaking of the Upanishads		[(original postcard in Laughlin file) notes on postcard from James Laughlin, Nicanor Parra, Marianne Moore, and an unknown signatory - Merton acknowledges the postcard in his letter to Laughlin of 1966/06/23 - postcard of Patchin Place in Greenwich Village, New York] «detailed view»
Series 1 #6. «All Series«	1967/04/28	TL[c] from Merton	It is almost exactly a year since your historic visit here. The weather is now once again as it was	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #7. «All Series«	1967/09/22	other	Computation of Payments to Translators in POEMS & ANTI-POEMS [-] By Nicanor Parra		«detailed view»

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