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Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute ca... Read More about The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition

The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize–winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered materialSouthern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santi... Read More about The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition

"Spanish poetry in the twentieth century uniquely combines both primitive and sophisticated elements. It is as firmly rooted in folksongs and ballads as it is in wild surrealist imagery. The brilliant personalism and imaginative grace of Machado, Jimenez and Unamuno, the dazzling intensity of Lorca,... Read More about Roots & Wings: Poetry from Spain 1900-1975

The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel PrizeThe south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Ch... Read More about Memoirs

"Perhaps the most admirable element of Gelman's poetry is the unthinkable tenderness he shows . . . calling upon so many shadows for one voice to lull and comfort, a permanent caress of words on unknown tombs."--Julio Cort zar As Juan Gelman's name begins appearing with regularity on lists predictin... Read More about Dark Times Filled with Light: The Selected Work of Juan Gelman

Humberto, who lives and works at a convent home for old women, loses his sanity as he becomes obsessed with black magic and his duty to protect a monstrous child.... Read More about Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)