CHILEAN POETRY:
María Eugenia Bravo Calderara

María Eugenia Bravo Calderara Prayer in the National Stadium Poetry. 1992. Bilingual text translated by Dinah Livingstone, with 2 poems translated by Cicely Herbert and illustrations by Julio Moreno Robles. 88 pages. ISBN 0 904872 16 5. £5.95.

Poems about her imprisonment and torture after the 1973 coup in Chile and her experiences as an exile in England.

'Her control in the poems, among the terror and torture, is superb. It is typical that she writes a sympathetic poem about one of the guards.' -- The North
'We can feel the fear and despair, but also the hope and determination to maintain one's humanity.' -- British Bulletin of Publications
'The Spanish texts are printed alongside the English versions of the poems by Dinah Livingstone, but I read the latter as poems in their own right.' -- Scratch

Click on book for María Bravo poem from it.