Author(s): Pablo Neruda

Poetry & Plays

A vortex of time and being, of loneliness, cycles of the natural world, decay, destruction, silence, resurrection; of luminous solitude, blue oblivion, and of such deep melancholy that at one time Neruda considered renouncing the whole book and withdrawing it from circulation; of the erotic night, love's impulse, and memory's persistence; of odes to Lorca and lovers, elegies, songs, sonatas, and barcaroles; of the magnificent series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts, that Republican soldiers of the Spanish civil war printed at the eastern front, of sea waves, landslides, jellyfish, and a planet of swords - Residence on Earth is truly a work of intimate vastness, of lasting consummation."--BOOK JACKET.