The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost sixty years. They are Zeller’s brief songs of eroticism and love, adventure and nostalgia, youthful ardour, the sorrow of age, and undying hope. They give the reader a great poet’s door into the riches of surrealism, European Romanticism, and the age-old Spanish lyric tradition. | The translations by A.F. Moritz often represent his fourth or fifth revisiting of the Zeller versions he has been producing since 1978.

Ludwig Zeller is prominent in both Latin American poetry and international surrealism. Before coming to Canada in 1971, he was curator of the Chilean Ministry of Education Art Gallery (1952 $#150; 1970). His poetry publications include Salvar la poesia quemar las naves (Mexico City, 1988 and 1994) and (Mexico City, 1993). Zeller has exhibited his visual art in scores of one-man and group shows throughout North America and western Europe, including at the Venice Biennale 1986). He was a featured poet at the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival (1987) and the featured poet and artist of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (1991).

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A.F Moritz was born in Niles, Ohio in 1947 and educated at Marquette University. He is a recepient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and is one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary poets. Moritz has published over fifteen books of poetry and has received many accolades for his works. These include a Canada Council Fellowship, a ReLit Award and the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009. Moritz is also a recent nominee of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in English. He currently lives in Toronto and teaches at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

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