When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo A Memoir

by Delano, Poli; Monroy, Manuel; Higgins, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780888997265
• ISBN10: 0888997264
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-29
• Publisher: Groundwood Books

Summary

Poli Delano had a magical childhood connection to the great Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. He and his parents, who were Chilean diplomats, lived with Neruda in Mexico. This book is Poli's charming memoir of those magical days with the Nerudas. He learned a wide array of things from Tio Pablo from how to swim to what fate is. Pablo Neruda is one of the most widely read and beloved writers in the world. He was a politically engaged man until his death, just days after the fall of Allende's government in Chile in 1973. He was full of an almost child-like sense of joy, a love of nature and women, and a great enthusiasm for the world. This book can serve as an introduction to Neruda for the North American child. In addition to the text of the memoir, there is a short biography of the poet and a selection of his most accessible poems.

Table of Contents

Prologue	6	(3)
The Belligerent Badger	9	(10)
The United Fruit Co	16	(3)
The War	19	(10)
Twenty Love Poems: 20. I can write the saddest verses	26	(3)
The Spoiled Spider	29	(10)
The Heights of Macchu Picchu: XI. Down through the blurred splendor	36	(3)
The Tarzans of Acapulco	39	(10)
The Fugitive: XII. To everyone, to you	46	(3)
Caviar for Tia Ant	49	(10)
The Great Tablecloth	56	(3)
An Invisible Stroke of Fate	59	(10)
Poetry	66	(3)
Like Taking a Bone from a Dog	69	(9)
Biographical Note	78