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Essequibo (1992)
seems like the obvious pick to bring the new Neruda into English
A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity
In Amsterdam in 2002
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Julia Bird Essequibo (1992)The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century and a half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet it has long remained a hidden territory and even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many
