A shocking poetic account of an event that was kept secret: the
throwing of the bodies of the disappeared in Chile into the mouths
of volcanoes and into the sea. "INRI" responds to the need to find
a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from
official records in Chile: the fact that the bodies of the
disappeared were thrown out of helicopters into the mouths of
volcanoes and into the sea. In order to bring this event, which was
neither seen nor heard, into language, Zurita invents a form and
language capable of bringing it into the present. The one place
where these unspeakable acts might be registered is in the
landscape of Chile: the mountains, desert, and sea. There the event
might begin to be touched, heard, and finally seen. When there are
no places from which to speak, 'the stones cry out'. "INRI" is
written as poetry without regular lines or metre. In the tradition
of Whitman or Ginsberg's Howl, it works with long breaths and large
blocks of meaning: intensities that overrun the usual measures of
speech and syntax. To read it is to experience a strange force
pulsing through the language, breaking apart its usual channels,
and opening unseen and unheard zones. Zurita, winner of the Chilean
National Poetry Prize, is one of the best known poets of Latin
America. His work is part of a revolution in poetic language that
began in the 1970s and sought to find new forms of expression,
radically different from those of Pablo Neruda. The challenge was
to confront the contemporary epoch, with its particular forms of
violence, including violence done to language. "INRI" is
distinctive in that it does not speak out of individual sorrow,
though this is not missing from the text, but seeks, rather, a new
space, out of which love might be asserted as prime human reality,
a space which might give birth to a different type of society.
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