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Residence on Earth is a stimulating and earthy collection of Pablo Neruda's poetry from the 1930s and 40s. It is a mix of the personal and the natural (which he marries exceptionally) and the political (which are a bit dated with their communistic ideals, though still interesting). I've long since learned that the best way to read Neruda is to just let the poems flow over you like a river, in keeping with the Chilean poet's irrepressible ability for making ordinary natural occurrences and personal emotions seem intoxicatingly sensual.

Favourites include 'The Dawn's Debility', 'Madrigal Written in Winter', 'The Ghost of the Cargo Boat', 'Barcarole', 'Meeting Under New Flags' and 'Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia'. ( )

Beauty, complexity, home. Neruda knows how to create all this in words makeing this a book I frequently go to when I need to feel the warmth of beauty and home. ( )