Purifying Fire: In this collection of poems, Ariel Dorfman suggests we may only escape the fire of injustice by finally facing it, head on.

From: The Independent Weekly | Date: November 27, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Chilean writer and Duke Professor Ariel Dorfman?s new collection of poems, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two languages, explores the human costs of political terror, which range from irreconcilable loss to the guilt and anomie of survivors. The poems in this collection were drawn from several sources, chief of which is Last Waltz in Santiago, a previously published volume of poems memorializing those ?missing? following the 1973 military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Also included is a set of previously unpublished, densely expressive, ...

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