I get my news from poetry and I cannot live without what I find there. This startling, deeply disturbing poetic investigation by Jeanne-Marie Osterman of the murders and tortures of the Pinochet regime in Chile freezes my blood. How can I turn back to the page after reading about bodies hung to rail tracks and flung into the ocean--after noting the chilling horrors of how the regime sought to disappear people absolutely without any trace. But this book exists along with the memories of survivors and the tens of thousands who went into exile. And there are songs of Victor Jara and poems of Pablo Neruda despite Pinochet's blood lust and his desire to wipe away all opposition. Chile has gone back to democratic practice. The hijacking of Allende and the bitter pain of decades of murder, loss, exile, is starting to heal. This book contributes to that healing.

—Indran Amirthanayagam, Author of

Ten Thousand Steps Against The Tyrant