Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Book + CD. Bilingual Edition in English and Spanish. With accompanying CD of author reading in both English and Spanish. "In poems often slender as Chile itself, David Petreman has paid tribute to the country in a luminous sequence in which nature has an elemental presence and the people he comes to know so well retain their compassion in challenging circumstances. That they also retain a sense of culture's value is no small part of their experience, and this is what we may first pick up from reading CANDLELIGHT IN QUINTERO. Replete with the scents and sights of the place, the poems still respond to the deeper challenge of showing the feelings and relationships that make up the real Chile"—David Chorlton, author of The Porous Desert and Waiting for the Quetzal.

Author City: CINCINNATI, OH USA

David A. Petreman teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at Wright State University. He frequently writes poems about his experiences during seven stays in Chile. His translation of a book of poems by Marino Muñoz Lagos, The Faces of Rain/Los rostros de la lluvia, was published as a bilingual edition in Chile by LOM Ediciones (2001). His La obra narrativa de Francisco Coloane (The Narrative Work of Francisco Coloane), a literary analysis of the legendary Chilean's work, was published in Chile in 1988 by the Editorial Universitaria. Petreman has published two editions of a translation of Coloane's short stories, Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World, published by the Latin American Literary Review Press in Pittsburgh (1991 and 2003). He has also written many articles on Latin American literature. He directs an annual Poetry Series at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio.