Interviews - September 2024

Between memory and forgetting

From left to right: Carlos Soto-Román, Soto-Román's book “11,” and Leanne Tory-Murphy.

I met Carlos Soto-Román in Santiago this January not long after Ugly Duckling Presse’s publication of the English translation of his book 11. Drawing from archival state documents and other found materials, 11 is an experimental work of documentary poetics addressing the dictatorship and its aftermath in Chile starting from the military coup on September 11, 1973.