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Blogs > loveDbeach > Reflections~loving d beach


loveDbeach 45F
307 posts
7/11/2008 7:43 pm

Last Read:
9/4/2008 5:24 am
Neruda's Last Romance
SOURCE: yahoo.com; July 12, 2008

Unpublished Pablo Neruda poems highlight last romance

SANTIAGO (AFP) - - A series of unpublished poems by Chile's late Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Nobel prize for literature, are shedding light on his last romance with his wife's niece more than 40 years his junior, a collector said.

The 14 poems were found in a book titled "Black Island Album," named after the house in central Chile which Neruda, his third and last wife Matilde Urrutia and her niece Alicia Urrutia shared, according to Nurieldin Hermosilla.

The lawyer and Neruda collector said he bought the book recently from a book dealer, who in turn had acquired it from an anonymous seller.

The poems are handwritten in Neruda's traditional green ink and are "a direct and definitive confirmation from the poet's own pen of his love for Alicia," Hermosilla said.

He said Alicia Urrutia decided to go public with the poems after years of keeping silent about her affair.

"I think she decided to confirm her love with Neruda and put this book on sale to lend herself some legitimacy and put an end to the myth" and speculation, the lawyer said.

Neruda, who died at 69 in 1973, just 12 days after dictator Augusto Pinochet's coup, is famous for his love poems as well as his "Canto General" -- an epic poem about South America's history and its people.

But he also was a senior member of the Chilean central committee of the Communist Party and his work was banned during Pinochet's 1973-1990 military dictatorship.

At different periods of his life, Neruda was a political exile, a senator, an ambassador and in 1970 a presidential candidate for the Communist Party.

Neruda's real name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. His pen name was inspired by Czech writer Jan Neruda.

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My thoughts on the article:
~ Some of the best love poems are based on illicit love affairs. It is sad to think about it.

~ How many of men write where their wives are their inspiration? I bet not too many. It is sad to think about it.
jane82 110F

8/10/2008 4:30 am

 Hey sis, how are you?

Missing you as usual.

Hope you're well and God Bless!


within each one of us, and let it begin with me (and each one of us)..one breath at a time.


loveDbeach 45F
598 posts
9/4/2008 5:21 am

 I bet it would be. I find men's 'confessions' in different genres either romantic or absurd, sometimes childish. But interesting nonetheless.


loveDbeach 45F
598 posts
9/4/2008 5:24 am
    Quoting jane82:
    Hey sis, how are you?

    Missing you as usual.

    Hope you're well and God Bless!
Hi dear! Take off the shades already. haha! Missing you, too. Sorry, I've been busy setting up my new business. It's hard work. Harder when I forget I I gotta slow down. So here I am slowing down, replying to comments, and making kulit with friends. How are you, sis?




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