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Here is Canto General seen afresh, the breathtaking beauty of Neruda's poetry fully revealed in English, with a new translation for the twenty-first century. Pablo Neruda's epic poem Canto General is a prodigious work that scrolls out like the chronicle of a journey through the Americas. In his most audacious and ambitious achievement, Neruda depicts history as a vast, continuous struggle against oppression. Constructed in fifteen parts, and made up of more than fifteen thousand lines, Canto General unfolds in successive epochs, celebrating the flora and fauna and geology of Neruda's homeland and recounting episodes in the lives of explorers and conquistadors, emperors and dictators, revolutionaries and everyday laborers.
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. DECLASSIFIED, the new collection by Mariela Griffor, Chilean poet exiled to Sweden in the 1980s and now living in the American Midwest, is an enigmatic, at times erotic and often passionate exploration of relationships and politics, finding their shared tropes of deception, subterfuge, and even espionage. Ultimately, the book's focus is on love—between husbands and wives, friends, and a mother and her daughter—and how, in the most challenging of times, only the strongest bonds resist decay
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