Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was perhaps the greatest Spanish poet of the 20th century. The poet known as Pablo Neruda was named Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto at his birth in 1904. He signed his work "Pablo Neruda" (although he did not legally adopt...

Arguably the most widely read Latin American poet of all time, Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1971. This honor came as the culmination of more than fifty years of writing poetry that moved readers the world over, for Neruda's v...

Ode to My 1977 Toyota Engine like a Singer sewing machine, where have you not carried me--to dance class, grocery shopping, into the heart of darkness and back again? O the fruit you've transported-cherries, peaches, blueberries, watermelons, thousands of Fuji apples--books, and all my...

WHEN I WAS AT BOARDING SCHOOL, there was a particularly repellent dish served monthly which consisted of sausage meat baked with a potato topping. It was a meal that made even the youngest participant grieve for the wasted life of a pig. The headmistress...