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Book SynopsisThe living risk losing everything, but what they hold on to - love, faith, hope, truth - might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these poems. This title gives an account of ruptured safety.
Trade Review“[These poems] manage to speak with great directness of the . . . suffering and dread in his own country—and, by implication, in much of the world today—and yet to be maps of the imagination, the compassionate imagination. . . .Writing like this is a rare source of hope."—W. S. Merwin
"Ariel Dorfman’s testaments of pain and outrage are indeed poems. They will outlast the oppression, the torture, the misery of exile of which they tell. ‘Many are called’ to write of these matters, but ‘few are chosen.’ Dorfman is one of the few."—Denise Levertov
"As long as poems such as these are written and published, the Pinochets of the world cannot have the last say."—Breyten Breytenbach
Praise for Ariel Dorfman’s poetry:"A deeply moving collection from one of Chile’s most important writers. . . .Stark and at the same time oddly radiant."—Margaret Atwood
