Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People

About This Book

“Matilde Urrutia was the poet Pablo Neruda’s lover, muse, wife, and widow. The Nobel-laureate Chilean wrote The Captain’s Verses and One Hundred Love Sonnets - two of the most celebrated volumes of love lyrics in modern Spanish letters - for her. In My Life with Pablo Neruda, Urrutia reveals her side of their famed romance. But her book is not simply a love story told by a muse; it is also a document of her life as the persecuted widow of a national hero. Her voice lifts out of the sorrow and…