In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment...

In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had left behind him in the huge span of his writing existence. Written in his "autumnal" period, from the vantage point of Isla Negra, the small village on the Pacific coast of Chile which he came to regard as the center of his world, the book reads like a series of...

From the Publisher: En los Cien sonetos de amor, Neruda le canta a Matilde Urrutia, y su lirica, que nace en la faz tamgible del cuerpo mas amado, se extiende para rendir homenaje al sentimiento vital, a la experiencia unica: el amor. "Con mucha humildad hice estos sonetos de madera, les di esta opaca y pura sustancia", escribio Pablo Neruda. La desnudez que elige aqui el autor rehuye deliberadamente las pautas sonoras y constructivas del soneto clasico....

"Drawn from the most intimate and personal of associations. Pablo Neruda's most beloved collection of poetry juxtaposes the exuberance of youthful passion with the desolation of grief, the sensuality of the body with the metaphorical nuances of nature." "Interspersed with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, W.S. Merwin's masterly translation faces the original Spanish text. This edition also features a wonderful new Introduction by Cristina Garcia."--Jacket....

Features the songs of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara.