Who shouted for joy at the birth of the color blue? When I look once more at the sea, does the sea see me or not see me? Why do the waves ask me the same questions I ask them? Libro de las preguntas ...

Let me begin with a confession: like any post-adolescent of the late 1980s with literary pretensions, I adored Pablo Neruda’s poems. I had recently read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of ...

Forrest Gander opens his “Prologue” to Then Come Back with an admission: “It’s true, I’ve been caught in print several times saying, ‘The last thing we need is another Neruda translation.’” His caveat ...

More than 20 unpublished poems by the late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, most of them taking up romantic themes, have been discovered in boxes of his papers in Chile and will be published in Latin ...

In June, 1968, I was living in Buenos Aires with Patrick, an Anglo-Argentine businessman whose passion was poetry. In the daylight hours, he was a senior executive at a foodstuffs conglomerate known ...

The poet Pablo Neruda was born in 1920 at the age of 16. It was in October of that year, anyway, that a young man whose unsuspecting parents had baptized him Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto ...

It's national poetry month, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to translator Alastair Reid about a newly released collection of the Chilean ...

Listen, he was called “The Greatest Poet of the Twentieth Century” because he was a real, salt of the earth, no-bullshit poet. They don’t make them the way they used to anymore. Bring out the tissues ...

Pablo Neruda wooed readers with his romantic poetry, but the latest lines in his story could be ripped from a murder mystery. The Chilean poet’s 1973 death certificate says prostate cancer killed him.

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