Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Roberta Gorenstein Preface by Isabel Allende. Delia Dominguez is one of the most important poets of Chile. WOMAN WITHOUT BACKGROUND MUSIC is the first volume of her poems to be published in English and collects poems from all phases of her work in a bilingual edition. "Her poetry is terrestrial with roots, aerial with wings of birds, translucent like our waters" - Isabel Allende. "I love Delia Dominguez dearly, and I want you to love her, and desire her, and nourish yourselves with her infinitely frangrant substances she brings from afar" - Pablo Neruda.