Fully Empowered / Plenos poderes: A Bilingual Edition

An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems.

"The Sea"

A single entity, but no blood.

A single caress, death or a rose.

The sea comes in and puts our lives together

and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing

sin nights and days and men and living creatures.

Its essence-fire and cold; movement, movement.

Pablo Neruda himself regarded Fully Empowered — which first appeared in Spanish in 1962 under the title Plenos Poderes — as a particular favorite, in...