Elvira Hernández, Beyond The Chilean Flag

Jèssica Pujol Duran is Associate Professor in Latin American and Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Chile. Macarena Urzúa Opazo is a Researcher and Associate Professor in Latin American Literature at University of Santiago de Chile.

Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo present a carefully curated critical edition that brings Hernández’s transformative poetics to the anglophone world. A combination of poetry, translations, and critical and creative responses, this provocative book illuminates Hernández’s creation of ‘common spaces’ between reader and poet, language and body, and meaning and material.

• AcknowledgementsEditors’ Preface. Elvira Hernández: A Life in PoetryJèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa OpazoIntroduction. Reading Elvira Hernández: Silence, Irony and the Civic ImaginationAlec SchumacherPart I. Poetry Collections and ArtefactsLa bandera de Chile (The Chilean Flag) (1981)IntroductionCecilia VicuñaThe Chilean FlagWhat is a Flag and What is it for? On La bandera de Chile by Elvira HernándezMaría Inés Zaldívar¡Arre! Halley ¡Arre! (Giddy up, Halley!) (1986)Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel BorzutzkyCarta de viaje (Voyage Chart) (1989)Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol DuranCartas al azar: Muestra de poesía chilena (Chance Cards: A Sample of Chilean Poetry) (1989)Santiago Waria (Santiago Waria) (1992)Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel BorzutzkyÁlbum de Valparaíso (Valparaiso Album) (2002)Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa OpazoSeudoaraunaca y otras banderas (Seudoaraucana and Other Flags) (2017)Selected and translated by Macarena Urzúa OpazoUn fantasma recorre el mundo (A Ghost Walks the World) (2012)Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran‘Ocupo renglones’ ('I Use Lines') (2014)Manuscript; unpublished; translated by Macarena Urzúa OpazoPájaros desde mi ventana (Birds from my Window) (2018)Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel BorzutzkyPart II. Collected Poems (1987–2017)Excavaciones (Excavations) (1987–2017)Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa OpazoLos trabajos y los días (Works and Days) (2016)Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa OpazoPart III. Critical EssaysElvira Hernández, Poet of DestitutionWilliam Rowe'No soy tan moderna': The Poetic Work of Elvira Hernández Beyond the NeovanguardiaLorena Garridodebajo de la ciudad, debajo de las palabras ïï beneath the city, beneath the wordsSoledad Fariña and Jen/Eleana HoferA Chilean Poetry Card Reading: About Cartas al azar: Muestra de poesía chilena (1989) by María Teresa Adriasola and Verónica ZondekJorge Polando and Jonathan OpazoElvira Hernández: An Alphabet to Decolonise the Chilean TransitionMagda Sepúlveda ErizWhere no birds sing: Biodiversity loss in contemporary Chile in Elvira Hernández’s Pájaros desde mi ventanaNiall BinnsAnnotated BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex