James Scully

Santiago Poems

“A rich, vivid, and eloquent chronicle of life...relevant well into the future.” -- The Minnesota Review

Santiago Poems is a concise collection of lyric poems describing life in Santiago de Chile immediately following the Pinochet coup d’état. It includes a tribute to Victor Jara, descriptions of the chillingly quiet terror of the Santiago streets and the many disappearances.

Published several years before the film "Missing", it lays the groundwork for that film, and other publications about that period, in hard-hitting lyrics.

Selected Works

Essays

Line Break: poetry as social practice
"a major radical artist-intellectual at the peak of his power...a lucid, intransigent work."

--Fred Pfeil, Village Voice

Poetry

Donatello's Version
“James Scully’s fierce moral intelligence, poetic craft and grim humor are all alive and well in this long-awaited collection.”—Adrienne Rich

Santiago Poems
“A rich, vivid, and eloquent chronicle of life...relevant well into the future.” -- The Minnesota Review

Apollo Helmet
“These poems offer a fresh image or perspective to startle and illuminate.”

--Publishers Weekly

Raging Beauty
Selected Poems Unreviewed

Translation

Prometheus Bound
"No one who troubles to read Scully and Herington out loud can doubt it is a milestone in the translation of Prometheus Bound."

--Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English

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