Chile. Poesias y Canciones Cautivas. Poems and Songs of Captivity, 1975
San Francisco: Office for Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Chile
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Octavo. (73)pp. Three full-page illustrations punctuate the text, first as frontispiece, then title page, then partition to the collection of songs at the end of the volume. These songs, and...
Octavo. (73)pp. Three full-page illustrations punctuate the text, first as frontispiece, then title page, then partition to the collection of songs at the end of the volume. These songs, and the poems that precede them, emerged from the prisons and concentrations camps of Chile, making their way to Mexico where they were initially published by a group of Chilean exiles. That document, as the introduction states, was sent to representatives in San Francisco for wide publication in America, in a bilingual edition. Those representatives, who were predominantly gay male cultural workers, urgently sent the work to press the same year. Bound in printed, illustrated wrappers. Shelf-toning to rear cover, light rubs to corners, else near fine. An impressive and profound document of solidarity between the peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the face of totalitarianism.


