Alastair Reid

In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment...

"Fully Empowered" first appeared in Spanish in 1962, under the title "Plenos Poderes". Neruda himself regarded this collection as a particular favorite, partly because it came out of a most fruitful period in his life, partly because it is a miscellany of poetic manners, a representative anthology of his vast poetic range. The thirty-six poems vary from short, intense lyrics through characteristic Neruda odes and whimsical addresses to friends to...

Well-known nursery rhymes translated into Spanish.

Based on the true story of one of the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, and how they turned out to be fake. Includes five episodes and background on the aftermath of the Hitler Diaries.