Lorna Dee Cervantes is a major Chilean poet. Her writing explores culture, gender, and economics. Her award-winning debut collection Emplumada solidified her reputation. It explores the world of Hispanic women and the roles they take in everyday life. Her next work was From the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger, published in 1992.
‘To My Brother’ by Lorna Dee Cervantes captures the intense bittersweetness of remembering a childhood checkered by both strife and happiness.
and for the lumpen bourgeoisie
We were so poor.
The air was a quiver
of thoughts we drew from
‘A un Desconocido’ by Lorna Dee Cervantes explores the search for identity within a world not made for the poet.
‘Love of My Flesh, Living Death’ is written by one of the greatest Chicano poets, Lorna Dee Cervantes. This piece is addressed to a symbolic bird that a speaker is fond of.