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Julia Reed | 07/24/2008 1:10 pm

Julia Reed's Love Letters

Julia Reed
Oh my God, one poem is indeed impossible, and it’s a good thing I’m far away from my bookshelves or I would be paralyzed, but off the top of my head: Rilke’s Duino Elegies, Jim Harrison’s The Theory and Practice of Rivers, Leonard Cohen’s Travel, most of Pablo Neruda. I spent a long love affair once communicating via a secret postcard code that employed Neruda’s 100 Love Sonnets. They will bring you to your knees: "I loved you without knowing I did … I broke into houses to steal your likeness …"
Read more about: Books, Kay Ryan, Pablo Neruda, Poetry

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marta pont
dear julia, I share yr love of Neruda (and of New Orleans -you lucky devil-) but to be absolutely blunt, Neruda is one of those poets that only come alive in their native tongue. Solo en español, mi querida, solo en español…..
By marta pont on 08/11/2008 3:32 pm