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        Pablo Neruda

        nationality

        Chilean

        gender

        Male

        standing

        Major

        forms

        Poet

        date of birth

        July 12, 1904

        place of birth

        Parral, Maule Region, Chile

        date of death

        September 23, 1973

        place of death

        Santiago, Chile

        awards

        Nobel

        Rip's Impressions

        The most famous of Latin American poets, Neruda was more than the master of writing love poems, but a patriot against dictators, who was not afraid to speak risking his life. Indeed he was poisoned shortly after Pinochet's coup d'état, and despite official government orders to prohibit public observance of his death, thousands of Chileans filled the streets of Santiago defying the government's strict curfew laws.

        literary tidbits

        If You Forget Me

        I want you to know
        one thing.

        You know how this is:
        if I look
        at the crystal moon, at the red branch
        of the slow autumn at my window,
        if I touch
        near the fire
        the impalpable ash
        or the wrinkled body of the log,
        everything carries me to you,
        as if everything that exists,
        aromas, light, metals,
        were little boats
        that sail
        toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

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