Isla Negra – a notebook –

“Although Neruda’s prose memoirs were published in 1974, the year following his death, he had already published, ten years previously, a kind of poetic autobiography, Memorial de Isla Negra.
In over a hundred poems, he set out to explore his landscape, his roots, and his experience, in an attempt to gather within a single compass the various  ‘lives’ or ‘selves’ he had left behind him in the huge span of his writing existence. …”