Con Iwana, el poeta chileno Alvaro Leiva consolida una obra que viene gestandose desde 1987 para instalarse en una suerte de intersticio de la nueva lirica panamericana. Ademas de alter ego, la iguana es tambien un tributo a los varios desplazamientos linguisticos y territoriales del autor: liroforo bilingue que adopta la lengua de la metropolis norteamericana al castellano chileno para hacerla transitar de la urbe en decadencia al paisaje utopico de la anarquia verde, pasando por la cienaga del manglar y la transformacion espiritual camaleonica donde "yo, tu y el camaleon 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"