POET JAIME LUIS HUENUN VILLA TO READ AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Jaime Luis Huenún Villa, will lecture and give a poetry reading on March 14, from 7-9 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts.Monday, February 25, 2002 10:28 AM
Jaime Luis Huenún Villa, will lecture and give a poetry reading on March 14, from 7-9 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts. The lecture will be in Spanish with a simultaneous translation into English and is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the Offices of the Deans of the College and the Lectures and Forums Committee.
Jaime Luis Huenún Villa is a young and distinguished Chilean poet. His literary accomplishments have been heralded as a seamless blend of Indigenous and Spanish cultures, as his names attest (Huenún Villa). Yet, his poetry is also painstakingly aware of not being completely a part of either world, a cultural mestizo, as his acknowledged literary predecessor poets also indicated, the renowned Peruvian Cesar Vallejo and the Chilean Nobel laureate, Gabriela Mistral.
Born of Spanish and indigenous parents, he was raised in the southern city of Osorno, but he currently works in the city of Teumuco, where he edits a youth artistic magazine and leads writing workshops. In 1998 he was published in a trilingual anthology titled "Ül: Four Mapuche Poets." In 1999, he published "Ceremonias" with the Editorial Universidad de Santiago in Chile and in 2002, "Puerto Trakl" was published by the Editorial LOM, also in Chile.
