Canto General: Song of the Americas

“The greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.”—Gabriel García Márquez, of Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda’s epic poem Canto General is a prodigious work that scrolls out like the chronicle of a journey through the Americas. In his most audacious and ambitious achievement, Neruda depicts history as a vast, continuous struggle against oppression. Constructed in fifteen parts, and made up of more than fifteen thousand lines, Canto General unfolds in successive epochs, celebrating the f...