Luis Mizón republishes his latest poems in Chile, the book Far from here, illustrated by Wood, Sanfuentes and Marticorena, Al Fragor, Valparaíso 2017. Knight of Arts and Letters of France, and recently decorated with the Order of educational and cultural merit Gabriela Mistral, his human, tangible and substantial poetry, turns his own exile into a torn testimony of contemporary Chile.
Luis Mizón, Valparaíso 1942, studies Law at the Catholic University of Valparaíso; publishes Territorio del amazement, first prize in the Poetry Contest of the Valparaíso Writers Society in 1965; and The words on the table, 1972, also awarded in the “Luis Tello” National Poetry Contest. He works as a professor of Legal History, at the same university, and Modern History at the University of Chile.
His life and work in Paris has been due to exile since 1974; works at Radio France Culture with Reflejos de América Latina; publishes Tierra proxima, in La Nouvelle Revue Française 1977; and The Tree, in the Revue Création, in 1978; both, translations by Roger Caillois, who together with Claude Couffon, prepared the bilingual edition of Poème du Sud [Poem of the South], Gallimard 1982. With the exception of a few anthologies, his work reappeared in Chile in the early 2000s with his studies on Claudio Gay. In Mizón there is a devotion to culture and to Chile particularly; His latest books are Mumures de Sud (Matarasso 2014) and the poems of Mata ki te rangi (Mèridines, 2016), about the “ahus” of Easter Island.
Apr 6, 2018
Fri, 7 p.m.
Room C1, building B, floor -1
Free, first come, first serve.
Limited spaces.