11 by Carlos Soto-Roman (Paperback Book)

Name: 11 by Carlos Soto-Roman (Paperback Book)
Brand: Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse

The title of this book evokes the \u201Cother\u201D September 11: Chile\u2019s September 11, 1973, when Augusto Pinochet led a military coup to oust the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and inaugurated a brutal seventeen-year dictatorship.\nAssembled from found material such as declassified documents, testimonies, interviews, and media files, 11 immerses readers in the State-sponsored terror during this period and the effects it would continue to have on Chile. The poetry in this book adopts the form of collage, erasure, and appropriation, the language emerging from censorship and suffocation as experienced under military rule. Soto-Rom\u00E1n\u2019s work asks us to understand the past through what has been covered up, to reflect on the spoken and unspoken pieces that interact to create a\n\n11\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertised is ;