{"product_id":"the-valley-loses-its-atmosphere-winett-de-rokha-9781848617834","title":"The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere: El valle pierde su atmosfera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Valley Loses Its Atmosphere\u003c\/em\u003e is the final collection by Chilean poet Win騁t de Rokha. A book of 48 poems written during a journey across Latin America, it is a \u003cem\u003ecanto americano\u003c\/em\u003e, an epic poem that sings of a united Am駻ica through its land and peoples. The poems give attention to the land and social conditions, mentioning the \"banana plantations, rubber plantations, farmlands that produce bloodsuckers\", the indigenous peoples such as the \u003cem\u003ejivaro\u003c\/em\u003e of Peru and Ecuador, local fauna like wolves and wasps, local flora like the \u003cem\u003eclavel del aire\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003ecopihue\u003c\/em\u003e, and popular protests like the Baltimore Workers' Congress. Win騁t proposes a new kind of language and a new kind of person, within new economic structures. She does so through the performance of a neobaroque rhetoric that mirrors the Am駻ica she finds, with a mottled variety to it, a \"convulsive labyrinth, uneven, baroque, communicating\", with \"jumbled qualities\". One feels Win騁t's pleasure in making her way across an Am駻ica whose territories had already been given a hundred names by indigenous peoples before Columbus arrived, as she makes visits with her husband Pablo on behalf of a Communist Party that in theory stands for the friendship of peoples and the pursuit of economic and social justice. The world, shaken by recent and ongoing civil and world wars as Win騁t and Pablo travelled, seemed to vibrate with imminent catastrophe and change. Win騁t's introductory poem announces her intention to create a \"song of gold dust\" and a \"strophe of the day's necessity\". \"\u003cem\u003eThe Valley Loses Its Atmosphere\u003c\/em\u003e is incorruptibly American,\" she proclaims. As the critic Javier Bello puts it: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Valley Loses Its Atmosphere\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that will require many readings to give an account of its complexity and restore it to the place I believe it should have held-and should still hold - in contemporary Chilean poetry, as one of its most intense and particular moments.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Winett de Rokha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848617836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Winett de Rokha","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981292896511,"sku":"9781848617834","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71dca29c-230d-4797-83a4-4ef74b68fd0f.jpg?v=1683254734","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-valley-loses-its-atmosphere-winett-de-rokha-9781848617834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}