Rupi Kaur’s rising tide is lifting many boats in the world of poetry publishing
A few weeks ago we noted a fun little slab of poetry beef, with poetic sensibilities of varying orientation and vintage squaring off in time-honored fashion. We were not, unfortunately,… Read more »
We still don’t know what killed Pablo Neruda, but it 100% wasn’t what his death certificate reports
Alright, so, we’ve got another tally in the Pablo Neruda was probably murdered column. Public records show that Neruda died of cancer cachexia, a condition that involves severe weight loss,… Read more »
Nobel Prize archive reveals list of losers, including Borges, Nabokov, Neruda and more
In 1965, the Swedish Academy selected the Soviet/Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature—“for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of… Read more »
Lost Pablo Neruda poems—found and crowdfunded
In June 2014, upon reading about the discovery of new poems by Pablo Neruda, Michael Wiegers, executive editor at the nonprofit poetry publisher Copper Canyon Press, wrote the Neruda Foundation,… Read more »
When reading can transport you … because there’s a subway chip in the cover
Why bother with a subway pass when you can swipe a book instead? Danny Lewis reports for The Smithsonian that L&PM Editores, São Paolo’s premier pocketbook publisher, is expanding its… Read more »
Chilean government announces definitively that Pablo Neruda was murdered, maybe
In 2011, Manuel Araya, Pablo Neruda’s driver, told the Mexican magazine Proceso that—as we reported—it was not prostate cancer alone that killed the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 1973. No, Araya… Read more »
Neruda will be returned to his grave
Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda passed away forty-two years ago, but—as MobyLives has discussed in great detail previously—suspicions about the cause of his death keep rising. This weekend Judge Mario Carroza,… Read more »
Why Neruda’s death still haunts and fascinates us
Last Wednesday, the Chilean government announced it would reopen its investigation of Pablo Neruda’s death. Francisco Ugás, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s Human Rights Department, issued a press… Read more »
Unpublished Pablo Neruda poems discovered in Chile
Researchers have discovered twenty unpublished poems among Pablo Neruda’s papers. The Spanish publisher says (an unbiased proclamation, I’m sure) that this is “the greatest discovery in Spanish letters in recent… Read more »
Exile, assassins, and a probable answer behind the death of Pablo Neruda
Just as it turns out that Yasser Arafat may have been killed by radioactive poison, new evidence indicates that celebrated Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda may not have… Read more »