This is pure Neruda at his prime, which is to say incomparable.-- Choice The Separate Rose represents Pablo Neruda at the peak of his art, and William O\'Daly has done an important service by bringing it before American readers with such care.-- The Bloomsbury Review The coast of Easter Island--the most isolated inhabited island in the world--is adorned with gigantic and miraculous stone statues.
With an introduction by William O\'Daly..
Out of this journey grew a sequence of poems that alternate between Men and The Island, through which Neruda observes the latest remnants of the ancient world in direct opposition to modernity.
Neruda made a single pilgrimage to Easter Island during a poignant time in his life--he was dying of cancer and taking his life\'s inventory.
This is pure Neruda at his prime, which is to say incomparable.-- Choice The Separate Rose represents Pablo Neruda at the peak of his art, and William O\'Daly has done an important service by bringing it before American readers with such care.-- The Bloomsbury Review The coast of Easter Island--the most isolated inhabited island in the world--is adorned with gigantic and miraculous stone statues
