Asian American Studies Program students and staff gathered Nov. 9 in Rockefeller Hall for a catered Indian lunch and a talk on the U.S. election results with program director Derek Chang, associate professor of history.

The opening of Raymond Craib’s new book propels the reader instantly into the early and difficult history of Chile’s student anarchists: “The body of the firecracker poet wound its way through central Santiago. The funeral cortege extended some fifteen city blocks…” That sense of drama, laced with lyrical description, carries through the “The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile.”