Parra's poetry on canvas comes home From: Americas | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: Holston, Mark | Copyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Nov/Dec 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

AMONG THE EXTENSIVE array of projects orchestrated by the Chilean arts community to observe the thirtieth anniversary of the 1973 coup and commemorate the life of Salvador Allende, the socialist president who took his own life during events that toppled his government, one in particular had uncommon sentimental appeal. Although she died in 1967, three years before Allende became Latin America's first popularly elected Marxist-leaning president, Violeta Parra, Chile's most revered folklorist, ...

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