[11/24/26] Teillier, Jorge: After Everything

Song Cave, paperback

Translated by Sonnet Phelps and Sebastián Gómez Matus

Publication Date: November 24, 2026

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Though he is widely read and reprinted throughout Latin America, the Chilean poet Jorge Teillier is rarely translated into English, and his significance as an ecological thinker is radically underestimated both in Chile and abroad. This brand-new selection of poems establishes Teillier as a visionary ecological thinker, a vital link in a lineage of earth-based poetics traceable through Gabriela Mistral to Rainer Maria Rilke’s mystical poetics of the hearth. In plain language, Teillier’s poems access an essential aliveness that dissolves boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the organic and the inorganic. One of few major poets to remain in Chile during Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship, Teillier bore witness to the breakdown of society as he knew it. As the US undergoes its own unraveling, Teillier’s poems offer guidance for living, as he puts it, at “the end of the world.”