Ismael Gavilán
Ismael Gavilán Muñoz (Valparaíso, 1973) is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. He has published the verse collections Llamas de quien duerme en nuestro sueño (1996), Fabulaciones del aire de otros reynos (1999 and 2002), and Raíz del aire (2008), as well as the book of literary criticism Pensamiento y creación por el lenguaje: Acercamiento a la obra poética de Eduardo Anguita (2010). He is the director of Analecta, the humanities journal of Universidad Viña del Mar, and he also oversees the Poetry Workshop and Poetic Reflection Seminar at the La Sebastiana cultural center of the Pablo Neruda Foundation.
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A house devastated after a hurricane: the structures still stand, no one can say for sure whether the house will collapse, but at least for the moment we can be confident that it will not be so. Broke... -
It’s hard to remember, but at the end of the eighties, those of us who were starting to feel our way into poetry in Chile were faced with a confusing landscape, somewhere between distressing and monot... -
Any collection or poetic selection of an anthological nature, however brief it may be, will always be a curatorial exercise that should be aware of its precariousness: wishing to be inclusive, it ends...
