Chilean Poet

This novel mainly serves to celebrate Chilean poetry and explore different versions of the archetype of “the Chilean poet.” The author, who is Chilean, presupposes familiarity with this trope, but I, as an American reader, am completely unfamiliar with it. Partially for that reason, I grew frustrated with a plot that seemed primarily interested in introducing us to different poet characters. These characters were well developed, but the story was predictable, and most of the plot lines went nowhere.