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This suite is Neruda's last love song to the Earth. As the title suggests, the "man of decay" (Neruda is dying of cancer) addresses not ordinary stones, but cosmic ones: stones that reconcile immobile permanence and the clarity of spiritual flight. When the poet meets his crystallized self,... read more
First Sentence
When Pablo Neruda arrived in Paris in March of 1971 as the Chilean ambassador of the newly elected government of Salvador Allende, he carried in his suitcase fresh copies of a new book of poems, Las piedras del cielo, published four months earlier.
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- Pablo Neruda (Author)
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