Con Iwana, el poeta chileno lvaro Leiva consolida una obra que viene gest ndose desde 1987 para instalarse en una suerte de intersticio de la nueva l rica panamericana. Adem s de alter ego, la iguana es tambi n un tributo a los varios desplazamientos ling sticos y territoriales del autor: lir foro biling e que adopta la lengua de la metr polis norteamericana al castellano chileno para hacerla transitar de la urbe en decadencia al paisaje ut pico de la anarqu a verde, pasando por la ci naga del manglar y la transformaci n espiritual camale nica donde "yo, t y el camale n somos todos". In Iwana, the Chilean poet Alvaro Leiva consolidates a work that has been brewing since 1987 to settle in a sort of gap in the new pan-american lyric . Besides being a an alter ego, the iguana is also a tribute to various linguistic and territorial displacement of the Author: bilingual bard who adopts the language of the Castilian- Chilean-American metropolis to make the city move from declining to utopian landscape of green anarchy, through the mangrove swamp and spiritual transformation of a chameleon where "me, you and the chameleon are all." Jesus Sepulveda Chilean Poet and author of Correo Negro and Escrivania