Neruda : the poet's calling /

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Author / Creator:Eisner, Mark, 1973- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Ecco, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Description:628 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11464400
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ISBN:9780062694201
0062694200
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [527]-603) and index.
Summary:"The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--
Table of Contents:
  • Author's Note
  • Introduction
  • 1. To Temuco
  • 2. Where the Rain Was Born
  • 3. Awkward Adolescence
  • 4. The Young Poet
  • 5. Bohemian Twilights
  • 6. Desperate Songs
  • 7. Dead Gallop
  • 8. Afar
  • 9. Opium and Marriage
  • 10. An Interlude
  • 11. Spain in the Heart
  • 12. Birth and Destruction
  • 13. I Picked a Road
  • 14. América
  • 15. Senator Neruda
  • 16. The Flight
  • 17. Exile and Matilde
  • 18. Matilde and Stalin
  • 19. Fully Empowered
  • 20. Triumph, Destruction, Death
  • 21. The Flowers that Sleep
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I. Selected Poems in Their Full Length
  • Appendix II. On the Importance of Poetry in Chile
  • Basic Chronology
  • Books by Pablo Neruda and Their Selected In-Print English Translations
  • Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Credits