Pablo Neruda's Odes

Pablo Neruda’s first reading in the United States took place at the Poetry Center in June of 1966. Said Neruda that night: “To all of you who come to meet a poet who came from so far away, for this feeling of fellowship I never expected, I thank you.” Upon publication of All the Odes—he once committed to writing one per week—contemporary poet-translators gather to read from his work. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1971, Neruda was “the greatest poet of the 20th century—in any language,” wrote Gabriel García Márquez.