'Prayer in the National Stadium' is the first full collection of poems by the Chilean poet Mara Eugenia Bravo Calderara. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 consists of poems relating to her imprisonment. In Part 2 she writes about her experiences as an exile in England and her feelings, both positive and negative, about the English. Part 3 consists of highly erotic poems. Part 4 centres round a trip to Chile after the dictator's fall, her first visit in seventeen years, and the ambivalent emotions this aroused.