Acknowledgements Editors' Preface. Elvira Hernández: A Life in Poetry Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo Introduction. Reading Elvira Hernández: Silence, Irony and the Civic Imagination Alec Schumacher Part I. Poetry Collections and Artefacts La bandera de Chile ( The Chilean Flag) (1981) Introduction Cecilia Vicuña The Chilean Flag What is a Flag and What is it for? On La bandera de Chile by Elvira Hernández María Inés Zaldívar ¡Arre! Halley ¡Arre! (Giddy up, Halley!) (1986) Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel Borzutzky Carta de viaje (Voyage Chart) (1989) Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran Cartas al azar: Muestra de poesía chilena (Chance Cards: A Sample of Chilean Poetry) (1989) Santiago Waria ( Santiago Waria) (1992) Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel Borzutzky Álbum de Valparaíso ( Valparaiso Album) (2002) Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo Seudoaraunaca y otras banderas (Seudoaraucana and Other Flags) (2017) Selected and translated by Macarena Urzúa Opazo Un fantasma recorre el mundo (A Ghost Walks the World) (2012) Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran 'Ocupo renglones' ('I Use Lines') (2014) Manuscript; unpublished; translated by Macarena Urzúa Opazo Pájaros desde mi ventana (Birds from my Window) (2018) Selected and translated by Alex Schumacher and Daniel Borzutzky Part II. Collected Poems (1987-2017) Excavaciones (Excavations) (1987-2017) Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo Los trabajos y los días (Works and Days) (2016) Selected and translated by Jèssica Pujol Duran and Macarena Urzúa Opazo Part III. Critical Essays Elvira Hernández, Poet of Destitution William Rowe 'No soy tan moderna': The Poetic Work of Elvira Hernández Beyond the Neovanguardia Lorena Garrido debajo de la ciudad, debajo de las palabras ïï beneath the city, beneath the words Soledad Fariña and Jen/Eleana Hofer A Chilean Poetry Card Reading: About Cartas al azar: Muestra de poesía chilena (1989) by María Teresa Adriasola and Verónica Zondek Jorge Polando and Jonathan Opazo Elvira Hernández: An Alphabet to Decolonise the Chilean Transition Magda Sepúlveda Eriz Where no birds sing: Biodiversity loss in contemporary Chile in Elvira Hernández's Pájaros desde mi ventana Niall Binns Annotated Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index.