His Hands Were Gentle: Selected lyrics of Victor Jara

His Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara s lyrics, from early songs like El arado ( The Plow ) to Estadio Chile ( In the Stadium ), written in the hours before his execution there. They reveal Jara as an ardent political poet, an eloquent advocate for the peasantry from which he arose, a socialist visionary and a poetic balladeer of the highest order.