La andariega

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

"Hay canciones que no han sido bailadas, abrazos que no han acariciado otras pieles, besos que nadie ha robado y palabras que no han tenido voz. Hay una mariposa que no salió de su crisálida, que no tocó el cielo, que no batió sus alas. Y que hoy grita aquí, en forma de poemas, lo caótico de ser mariposa."

Cuando Amós Acero Pérez, maestro y primer alcalde democrático de Vallecas, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento franquista, se negó a que le colocasen la venda sobre los ojos, supo mirar de frente a los desconocidos ejecutores de una venganza, con la misma solidez y claridad de espíritu con que había mirado siempre a la vida durante cuarenta y siete años. La talla de Amós Acero Pérez queda plasmada en los primeros párrafos de la carta que escribió a su familia pocas horas antes de su muerte.

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