Great day for lovers of poetry and Pablo Neruda in particular: today the book with unpublished poems by the Chilean poet goes on sale.
I touch your feet in the shade and other unpublished poems, arrives today in bookstores thanks to the Seix Barral publishing house, which publishes it within the Biblioteca Breve collection.
The book includes twenty-one love poems and other themes that were not included in the works published by the author. The enormous relevance of this work lies in the fact that the poems belong to a period that spans from the early 1973s until shortly before his death in XNUMX. They are, therefore, after General sing (1950) and were written in the mature age of Pablo Neruda.
The discovery was produced when the director of the library and archive of the Pablo Neruda Foundation began cataloging the poet's manuscripts, scattered in notebooks and boxes filled with loose leaves and scraps of paper.
From the sieve came drafts and originals of many of his published works, shapeless fragments, unfinished or discarded texts, and poetry of circumstances.
But among all that mass of documentation, 21 poems worthy of being edited were found, at the height of his published work, according to Darío Oses, director of the Foundation.
To give the book some coherence, the editorial criterion has been to group the six love poems in a first block and the remaining 15 in a chapter of other poems.
Last fall this posthumous collection of poems reached Chilean bookstores and today it finally reaches Spanish bookstores.
It is not the first time that posthumous writings of this Nobel Prize have appeared. His poetry of adolescence and youth was published under the titles The invisible river (1980) and Temuco Notebooks (nineteen ninety six). On the other hand, his correspondence with Mailde Urrutia was published in 1996.
We should not rule out, therefore, that we continue to find surprises in the archive and library of this prolific and immortal writer.