For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
In one poem by this author, "the blood in the streets" answers "why doesn't his poetry speak of dreams and leaves and the green volcanoes of his native land?" This poet of that work about the Spanish Civil War, "I Explain a Few Things," also wrote "sometimes she loved me too" in a poem that declares "the night is shattered and she is not with me." This author of "Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines" included "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" in his epic poem Canto General. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
In one poem by this author, "the blood in the streets" answers "why doesn't his poetry speak of dreams and leaves and the green volcanoes of his native land?"
Pablo Neruda [or Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto]