Valparaíso y Neruda
Re: Chileans Celebrate Poet Neruda's Centennial
Valparaíso, Chile is one of the most beautiful cities I've every visited. It is also home to one of poet Pablo Neruda's three incredible homes. [Being a Communist didn't prevent him from having excellent taste.] While living in Chile, I tried to appreciate the poet's work; something that is almost de rigueur among Chileans. I have to confess to failing in that endeavor, however. I found his poems either embarrassingly carnal and lusty, or overly political. Still, many consider him the greatest poet of the Twentieth Century in any language.
Re: Chileans Celebrate Poet Neruda's Centennial
Valparaíso, Chile is one of the most beautiful cities I've every visited. It is also home to one of poet Pablo Neruda's three incredible homes. [Being a Communist didn't prevent him from having excellent taste.] While living in Chile, I tried to appreciate the poet's work; something that is almost de rigueur among Chileans. I have to confess to failing in that endeavor, however. I found his poems either embarrassingly carnal and lusty, or overly political. Still, many consider him the greatest poet of the Twentieth Century in any language.
Chileans walk past a poem, estimated to be
two-kilometers-long, written by admirers of
late Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda,
to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his
birth, in the center of the Chilean coastal
city of Valparaiso, July 11, 2004. Chileans
threw a giant poetry fest one day before
Neruda's July 12th birthday.
REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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