Sergio Mansilla Torres was born in Achao, Chiloé, Chile in 1958. He received his PhD in Spanish from the University of Washington; he is a tenured professor at the Southern University of Chile in Valdivia. Mansilla has published ten books of poetry, including Quercún (Los Libros del Taller, 2019).
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List of Totems in the Air
A broken wine glass, a Chinese radio,
trees looking on undaunted as I grow old,
scraps of bitter lemons,
a staircase pati…
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