Canto General, 50th Anniversary Edition (Latin American Literature and Culture)

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Neruda was a kind of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to poetry says Gabriel Garca Mrquez who also considers the Chilean Nobel laureate "the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language." The Fragrance of Guava 1983. The Canto General thought by many of Nerudas most prominent critics to be the poets masterpiece is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. The Canto speaks of the destiny of Latin American peoples and the life of the poet himself. Without question this is one of the most important and powerful long poems written in the modern period.