The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere: El valle pierde su atmosfera

The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere is the final collection by Chilean poet Winétt de Rokha. A book of 48 poems written during a journey across Latin America, it is a canto americano, an epic poem that sings of a united América through its land and peoples. The poems give attention to the land and social conditions, mentioning the "banana plantations, rubber plantations, farmlands that produce bloodsuckers", the indigenous peoples such as the jivaro of Peru and Ecuador, local fauna like wolves ...