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I wasn’t in Chile during the coup. I had left the country some months before, escaping from Santiago in the midst of one of the by-then daily demonstrations that jammed the downtown area–one day for President Allende, the next day against–which made getting a taxi to the airport a miracle of logistics and luck.

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Each of these books is a recent winner or selection of a national competition; each is the first major publication for its author. All of the poets are young, and all live or have spent substantial portions of their lives in the Southwest of the South.