Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra Sandoval (born 5 September 1914) is a Chilean mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile. He is considered a popular poet in Chile, with enormous influence and popularity throughout Latin America, he is also considered one of the most important poets of Spanish language literature. He describes himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function—after recitations he would exclaim Me retracto de todo lo dicho, or "I take back everything I said."