How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

This essay also appears in Issue 98 of Brick. It's true, I've been caught in print several times saying, "The last thing we need is another Neruda translation." It's not that I don't love Neruda, but given the attention he's justly received-he's the only Nobel Prize winner in literature many people can name-I've wanted to champion terrific lesser-known and more contemporary Latin American writers in translation.

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