A review by paul_viaf
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda

3.0

I did like the book yet beacause I have read some of his more experimental works first, this may have ruined this reading experience. I found the writing to be genuine & profound, but at times, I also found it redundant & saw it as a search to find the writer I've come to love. We all start off searching as writers & this is no exception. I did see the potential in many of the works & did see the outpour of pure emotion, so in this I could never discount such an intimate baring. My favorite poems of the book were El Pueblo & the Obligations of a Poet...those poems touched me the deepest & summed it up for me. I will continue to read his works & cherish them greatly.