Love Breaks
Chilean poet Oscar HahnTranslated by Professor James Hoggard
ISBN: 0-935480-49-8
Price: $11.00
Pages: 100
Love Breaks was first published in Chile in 1981 and was immediately banned by the government. Published again in 1986, these poems continue their meditative dialogue about desire and anger, and the nostalgia for order and contemporary aspects of disorder.
"Hahn's 'Mal de amor' reveals the Chilean
poet's surprisingly erotic themes, the brief poems given over
almost entirely to the loss of an apparitional
lover... Beauty... is impressed upon the reader in abundance of
stunning imagery... Time and again Hoggard has expressed his
love of language and his desire to do justice to each
translation."
--San Diego Times