Poetic Timing
Three days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69.
However, it wasn’t in just any month that Neruda’s final days took place: On September 11th less than two weeks before he died, [ read more... ]
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- Pablo Neruda: A Chilean Life Full of Poetry and Politics
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