Dark Room and Other Poems

Enrique Lihn (1929-1988) was born in Santiago, Chile, and became one of Chile's most important poets. Germán Marín called Lihn's poetry, one of the most original and profound expressions in Latin American Letters. Another fellow Chilean, antipoet Nicanor Parra, has written, There is no lucidity like that of Enrique Lihn. Lihn's writings, both creative and critical, are considered in Chile the most important produced by his generation and some quarters as the most significant in Chile's distinguished literary history.

Jonathan Cohen is the editor and compiler of William Carlos Williams' By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish,1916-1959 and editor and translator of Ernesto Cardenal's Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, both published recently by New Directions.

John Felstiner is the author of Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. He teaches at Stanford University.