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Enrique Lihn (1929–1988) published novels, short stories, poems, essays, and plays, and was considered by many to be the best Chilean poet of his generation. Among his best known books of [...]

The unwritten poem that mocks the word paralyzes my hand above the blank paper. Once more my head is a forest and my hand is an insect monstrosity plays with and from language itself the words [...]

When you’re 52 the mirror is the other. There’s no Narcissus to speak of, no passion in seeing oneself in the other. The water in the pond is pitiless, finally hard as a bad snapshot, [...]