"The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez "His enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He had to do it, in order to name a world. Our world."--New York Times "Neruda lived a life of passionate engagement and his work was ambitious in every sense."--Los Angeles Times When Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda was a teenager,...