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Purgatory

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<h4>University of California Press, November 2009</h4><h5>Raúl Zurita; translated by Anna Deeny</h5>

This is Zurita’s harrowing chronicle of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile, along with the writer’s subsequent arrest and torture. It’s a visually stunning book of unforgettable poems.

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