"In order to talk with the dead
you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first
steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us
with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that
suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds
before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold."
--from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"
Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region
which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge
Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets,
whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with
the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and
Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now
introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a
representative selection of his best work from all phases of his
career.
Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y
maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para
reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of
some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived
directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the
timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of
Nevermore."
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