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Jul 25, 2015 · We interviewed Mark Eisner about the process of editing and translating Pablo Neruda and working on a documentary film about the Chilean poet.
- Audrey Golden
Jul 18, 2019 · She told me that although she had read the poem as a young girl, in school, it gained a heightened significance for her six years before, when, at thirty-two, she had fallen in love with a Bolivian doctor. He eventually left Chile, giving her a copy of Twenty Love Poems as a departing gift. I turned to Mario Fernández Núñez and asked him ...
Mar 27, 2018 · Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (The Poet’s Calling) is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer, translator, and documentary filmmaker. The book vividly depicts Neruda’s monumental life, potent verse, and ardent belief in the “poet’s obligation” to use poetry for social good.
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Eisner writes in the book’s introduction: “He was a man who gained celebrity status assuming the role of the ‘people’s poet,’ while also acting as what some call a ‘Champagne Communist.’. The contradictions are inherent within his multitudes, to paraphrase his hero, Walt Whitman.”.
Mark Eisner’s new biography, “Neruda: The Poet’s Calling,” explores the complex confluence of factors that accounts for Neruda’s extraordinary fame and success.
"Mark Eisner skillfully captures Neruda’s life and many passions: for poetry, people, love, and public recognition, using a wealth of archival, textual, and oral sources, some previously unknown to us.
He is the author of Neruda: The Biography of a Poet, the editor of The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, and co-editor of Resistencia: Poems of Protest, among other projects.
