“Let the Rail–Splitter Awake,” 366–67, 377–79, 383, 417
Libro de las preguntas (The Book of Questions), 483–84
“El liceo,” 62–63
literary criticism, 83, 133, 236, 242
“Loves: Delia (I)”, 420
“Madrigal Written in Winter,” 176
Las manos del día (The Hands of the Day), 447–48
“The Man Who Ran Away,” 413
“El Mar” (“The Sea”), 424, 503
El mar y las campanas (The Sea and the Bells), 484
“Maternity,” 193, 233
“Meeting Under New Flags,” 265
“Melancholy in the Families,” 233
memoirs, 15, 18, 27, 30, 38–39, 54, 73, 85, 93–94, 98n, 154, 163–64, 166, 168–69, 172n, 173n, 176–80, 183–84, 192, 211–12, 229, 234, 256, 281, 294, 375, 416, 427, 430, 473
Memorial de Isla Negra, 38, 156, 432–35
“Moon,” 72
“The More–Mother,” 278
“The Mountain and the River,” 383
“My Eyes,” 50–51
“My Soul,” 89
“Neighborhood with No Electricity, 89
“Neighborhood Without Light,” 76–77
“New Love Song for Stalingrad,” 302–3, 320
“The Night of the Soldier,” 165
“Night Train,” 73
“1921,” 83
“1968,” 450–51
“Nocturnal Collection,” 171, 182
“Nocturnal Establishments,” 182–83
Odas elementales (Elemental Odes), 405–11, 516
“Ode to Federico García Lorca,” 233–34, 256
“Ode to the Chair,” 407
“Ode to the Onion,” 408–9
“Ode to Wine,” 409–11, 514–16
“Ode with a Lament,” 231, 233
“On His Death,” 411–12, 501
“On Impure Poetry,” 240–42
“Opium in the East,” 183–84
“Orient and Orient,” 186n
“El párajo yo: (Pablo Insulidae Nigra)” (“The ‘I’ Bird: [Pablo of Isla Negra]”), 444
“The Pension House on Calle Maruri,” 75
“The People Call Him Gabriel,” 328
Las piedras de Chile (The Stones of Chile), 431–32
Plenos poderes (Fully Empowered), 421–22, 426n, 432, 486
Poem I, 118–19
Poem V, 95
Poem VI, 102, 107
Poem VII, 115, 312
Poem XIII, 312
Poem XV, 8, 49n, 96, 103–4, 106, 131, 137, 508–9
Poem XVI, 235–36, 239
Poem XVII, 115
Poem XX, 104–5, 496, 510–11
“Poetry,” 38
“The Poet Who Is Neither Bourgeoisie nor Humble,” 60
on postcards, 39, 142–43, 278
“The Potter,” 389
“La pródiga,” 390
“Railroad Roundhouses at Night,” 69–70, 89, 194, 315
“Recabarren (1921),” 322–23
“Religion in the East,” 187–88
“Reports from the Orient,” 157, 160
Residencia en la tierra (Residence on Earth), 129, 137–38, 141, 151–52, 159–62, 167, 173n, 175–76, 182, 194, 198–202, 205, 207–8, 219, 223, 225, 231n, 236, 244, 246, 301, 303, 315, 362, 365, 372, 403, 432, 438, 512
“Returning,” 484
“Salutation to the Queen,” 53
“Salute to the North,” 324
“The Sand Betrayed,” 376
“A Scattered Expression,” 125
“Sensación autobiográphica” (“Autobiographic Sensation”), 62
“Sex,” 98–99
“Song for Bolívar,” 293, 307, 359
“Song for the Mothers of Dead Militiamen,” 258, 262
“Song of the Fiesta,” 82
“Song to Stalingrad,” 302–3
Sonnet XVII, 431
Sonnet XXIX, 391
before Spanish Civil War, 362, 365
on Spanish Civil War, 257–59, 262–64, 269, 300, 315, 406
“Spoken in Pacaembú (Brazil, 1945),” 326
“Statute of Wine,” 242
tentativa del hombre infinito (venture of the infinite man), 125–30, 132–33, 137–38, 147, 149, 152, 160, 200–201, 205, 263
The Third Residence, 258, 293n, 307, 315
“Tina Modotti Is Dead,” 299, 305
“To La Sebastiana,” 425
“To Miguel Hernández, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain,” 300
“To my American friends,” 269
“Toward the Splendid City,” 53
“The Traitor,” 317
translations, 5–7, 30, 59–60, 79, 117, 207, 243, 269, 364–65, 370, 377, 379n, 411, 413, 422, 426n–27n, 428, 435n, 446–48, 483, 486, 497, 508–9, 511–12, 514, 516
“Tyranny cuts off the singer’s head . . . ,” 451
“The United Fruit Co.,” 296–97, 440
Untitled (1973), 443
Las uvas y el viento (The Grapes and the Wind), 397, 408
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song), 8–9, 42, 49, 54–55, 57, 78, 91, 94–95, 99, 101–19, 121–25, 129, 133, 152, 162, 175–76, 200–201, 205, 236–37, 239–40, 312, 365, 384, 403, 432, 509, 511, 520
Los versos del capitán (The Captain’s Verses), 382, 388, 390, 393–97, 431
“Walking Around,” 207–8, 498, 511–12
“We Together,” 201
“What Spain Was Like,” 221
“Where Can Guillermina Be?,” 33, 41, 507–8
“Widower’s Tango,” 166–68, 194
“Winter Garden,” 484–85
“The Word,” 1
“The Words of a Blind Man,” 69
“The Worship,” 450
“Writers of Every Country, United with the People of Every Country,” 274
“Yo acuso” (“I Accuse”), 337
“The Young Monarch,” 166
New York, 111n, 242, 302–3, 343–44, 364, 414, 436–40, 468–69, 502
“Night of the Americas,” 303–4
Nixon, Richard, 8, 243, 456–60, 468, 483–84, 596n
Nyon, 391–92, 394, 396–97
“Ode to Walt Whitman” (Lorca), 242
O’Neill, Eugene, 362–63
Open Veins of Latin America (Galeano), 10
Opium and the Romantic Imagination (Hayter), 181n
Ortega, Abraham, 282, 284
Ortega, Rudecindo, 19, 28, 68, 336n
Ortega Mason, Rudecindo, 28, 68, 336
Orwell, George, 165, 260
O’Sullivan, John L., 444–45
Otero Silva, Miguel, 334, 369, 375n, 406, 454
Oyarzún, Aliro, 94
Oyarzún, Orlando, 135–36
Pablo Neruda Foundation, 5–6, 10, 275, 489–90
“Panoramic Sketch of Chilean Poetry” (de Torre), 152
Parini, Jay, 462, 463n
Paris, 60, 74, 125, 126n, 142–43, 146, 175, 204, 218, 244–47, 252, 309, 381–87, 389, 400
Montparnasse scene in, 152, 200
Neruda’s second wife’s life in, 226–27, 281, 384–86, 416, 418, 420
Neruda’s trips to, 150–55, 199, 246–47, 266–67, 280–81, 357–59, 361, 370, 381–85, 390, 413, 426n, 435, 454, 464–65, 468, 470
Spanish Civil War and, 271–72
Spanish refugee crisis and, 279–81
World Congress in, 357–59
Parodi, Maria, 57, 446
Parra, Nicanor, 425, 498, 517
Paz, Octavio, 252, 259, 271, 299–301, 305, 308–9
PEN Club, 213, 414, 436–38, 441, 468–69
Peru, 15, 66, 78, 86n, 143, 153, 167, 179n, 287, 310–11, 317, 327, 366, 375–76, 438, 474, 500
mining in, 320–21
Neruda’s trips to, 440, 455
Pey, Victor, 344, 346, 348
Picasso, Pablo, 143, 227, 260, 271, 357–59, 370, 375n, 383, 398
Pinholes in the Night (Zurita and Gander), 315
Pinochet, Augusto, 333
dictatorship of, 1–2, 476, 478, 487–89, 491–93, 601n
Pino Saavedra, Yolando, 156
Poetry of Pablo Neruda, The (de Costa), 49, 115
postino, Il (The Postman) (Skármeta), 496, 500
Prado, Manuel, 310–11
Prado, Pedro, 80, 92, 110–11
Prague, 358, 361, 381, 385, 389, 392, 394–95, 449–51
Prats, Carlos, 471, 474, 476
Pre-Hispanic America (Rivera), 375–76
Prestes, Luís Carlos, 306–7, 326, 375n
Puerto Saavedra, 54–58, 64n, 72, 99, 109, 133, 186, 423
Pushkin, Alexander, 360
Ramos, Antonia, 317–18
Rangoon, 145–46, 148, 155–60, 163, 168, 172, 187–88
Recabarren, Luis Emilio, 45, 322–23, 324n, 361, 430, 471
Reid, Alastair, 7, 30, 323n, 422, 426n–27n, 435, 446, 462–63, 486, 500, 508
Reyes, Rodolfo (nephew), 492–93
Reyes Candia, Laura (half sister), 130, 174n, 195, 197, 345, 375n
childhood and adolescence of, 24–25
and father’s illness and death, 275, 278–79
Neruda’s Asian travels and, 155, 157, 160, 164
Neruda’s childhood poems and, 61–62
Neruda’s European travels and, 150–51
Neruda’s finances and, 92, 124, 143–44, 151
Neruda’s illnesses and, 37, 369–70
Neruda’s relationship with, 24, 35–37, 61–62, 279
stepmother’s death and, 278–79
Reyes Candia, Rodolfo (half brother), 20, 22–23, 25, 34–36, 61, 279, 492
Reyes Hagenaar, Malva Marina Trinidad (daughter), 231–35, 247
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