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———. Pablo Neruda: Los caminos de Oriente. Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2000.
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———. Pablo Neruda–Claudio Véliz, correspondencia en el camino al Premio Nóbel, 1963–1970. Santiago: Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos, 2011.
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Notes
Due to multiple editions throughout the years of his books of poetry, page numbers are not listed with the citation of a poem, assuming the reader can easily find the poem armed with the book’s and poem’s titles, and any extra information that might be needed. If not listed in the citation, the English translation of a book’s title can be found in the list of Neruda’s works here.
Abbreviations
OC = Obras completas (Complete Works), edited by Hernán Loyola. The volume number and page number follow. Bibliographic details of this series are here in the list of Neruda’s works.
APNF = Material (generally correspondence) located in the archives of the Pablo Neruda Foundation, Santiago, Chile. Some of these letters are also found in Obras completas, volume 5.
CHV = Neruda’s memoir, Confieso que he vivido. Because of the numerous editions, page numbers here correspond to the text in Obras completas, volume 5.
INTRODUCTION
“The Word”: “La palabra,” Plenos poderes, in Neruda, Pablo. Fully Empowered, trans. Alastair Reid (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975).
the first time the art form had been featured: The Academy of American Poets looked at the New York Times archives and only identified front-page pieces about poets on their deaths, as related to author by executive director Jennifer Benka, August 24, 2017.
“American Poets”: Alter, Alexandra. “American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right,” New York Times, April 21, 2017.
CHAPTER ONE: TO TEMUCO
“The Birth”: “Nacimiento” (1964), Memorial de Isla Negra, in Neruda, Pablo. Isla Negra: A Notebook, trans. Alastair Reid (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981).
Their property had a little more: Loyola, Hernán. Neruda: La biografía literaria (Santiago: Seix Barral, 2006), 18.
As José del Carmen grew: The background information on this period of José del Carmen’s life comes primarily from two living relatives, both of whom have been so helpful to me: The first is Bernardo Reyes, grandson of Neruda’s half brother, Rodolfo Reyes Candia, who was generous in our correspondences and who also wrote a book, Neruda: Retrato de familia, 1904–1920, 3rd ed. (Santiago: RIL Editores, 2003). I have also used material from the first two chapters of his Viaje a la poesía de Neruda: Residencias, calles y ciudades olvidadas (Santiago: RIL Editores, 2004). The second is Patricio Mason, great-great-grandson of Charles “Carlos” Mason, who generously shared with me crucial facts and insights into the history of his fascinating family, via correspondence. He also took upon himself the inspired noble mission of constructing a complete extended family tree for the Mason family from 1634 to 2016, viewable at http://www.ics.cl/Familia_Mason/index.html.
allowing him to find: Loyola, Neruda: La biografía literaria, 19.
fundamental role in Neruda’s life: Espinoza, Miguel. “Mason, ‘el constructor,’” Neruda in Temuco (blog), February 21, 2010, http://nerudaentemuco.blogspot.com.es/2010/02/neruda-en-temuco-mason-el-constructor.html.
In 1888: Mason, Patricio. “History of the Mason Family in Chile and Their Relatives by Marriage, 1634–2016,” http://www.ics.cl/Familia_Mason/persons/person137.html.
he quickly ascended to the top: Espinoza, “Mason, ‘el constructor.’”
on land he had managed to obtain: Ibid., and author correspondence with Patricio Mason, 2017.
The hotel allowed Mason to: Espinoza, “Mason, ‘el constructor.’”
“an enormous cooking pot”: CHV, 401.
Far along in her pregnancy: Author correspondence with Patricio Mason, 2017.
The baby was handed off: Ibid.
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