Declassified: Mariela Griffor

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. DECLASSIFIED, the new collection by Mariela Griffor, Chilean poet exiled to Sweden in the 1980s and now living in the American Midwest, is an enigmatic, at times erotic and often passionate exploration of relationships and politics, finding their shared tropes of deception, subterfuge, and even espionage. Ultimately, the book's focus is on love--between husbands and wives, friends, and a mother and her daughter--and how, in the most challenging of times, only the strongest bonds resist decay.