Osario / Ossuary: Bilingual Edition

"Osario, this new publication by Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo, contains content that has been present in much of his previous poetic production: the theme of death, the theme of nature, the theme of free will, and particularly, in this case, the presence of the sea as the great womb from which we come and to where we return after our limited stay in the Mapu. This is because Osario represents the bones of the disappeared and of the fallen by the neocolonial imposition that the Latin American Masonic republics exercise on the indigenous peoples. Poetry that is called ethnic by northern critics, like the food collected by the English from their colonies, to replace their limited gastronomy of "fish and chips", inhabits a larger cultural system that represents canonical western poetry as a whole, this being, for embodying the dominant culture, the one that has the role of defining and informing the accepted rules and codes for a text to be called poetry or to be discarded as a simple abject cultural object"--