Monseigneur romero biography of albert

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by Maria Poumier

Monsignor Romero and the poets

Salvadoran writer Miguel Angel Chinchilla has just published a novel, or rather a short documentary collection, entitled Finding corpses ("I spend my time picking up corpses").

These are the words of Monsignor Oscar Romero, commenting on his daily work as a little-heard mediator, shortly before his assassination on March 24,

In the civil war that followed, as if someone had detonated a detonator, tens of thousands (or more) of peasants were killed and/or disappeared, along with judges, journalists, students, religious figures and "collateral victims."

Poets are those who put things back in their place, who