A section titled "The Earth's Name Is Juan" is part of a long poetic cycle by this author providing an encyclopedic look at the Americas; that cycle's second section is titled "The Heights of Macchu Picchu."
This writer noted that "It is good . . . to look closely at the world of objects at rest" in his 1935 manifesto "Towards an Impure Poetry." He described the Spanish dictator being scratched in hell by a turtle that barks "with the voice of a dead woman" in the poem "General Franco in Hell" from the collection Residence on Earth. A section titled "The Earth's Name Is Juan" is part of a long poetic cycle by this author providing an encyclopedic look at the Americas; that cycle's second section is titled "The Heights of Macchu Picchu." FTP what poet began the twentieth love poem of one collection with "Tonight I can write the saddest lines," a Chilean who wrote a "Song of Despair"?
This writer noted that "It is good . . . to look closely at the world of objects at rest" in his 1935 manifesto "Towards an Impure Poetry."
Pablo Neruda