Huidobro

“Anything that happens here impacts a lot of people,” said Cristina Huidobro, the metropolitan area’s first chief heat officer, who is planning for the season to come as winter winds down.

Poorer communities are also “more vulnerable to heat and all its impacts,” Huidobro said.

Authorities chose the site partly as a gesture to health workers, who have been working extra hard during the pandemic, Huidobro said.

The country has produced two poet Nobelists, Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, as well as other titans of verse like Pablo de Rokha and Vicente Huidobro.

I think of Delmore Schwartz’s devastating primal scream, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read, or of the genius ravings of Vicente Huidobro in “Mío Cid Campeador,” or of Laurence Sterne in “Tristam Shandy.”