Creator
Pablo Neruda
Title
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda.
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Grove Press, Inc.
Date
1961
Description
I find this association copy particularly evocative. After meeting Neruda during his tenure as Librarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeish spent decades promoting Neruda in the US. He recommended Neruda to publishers and intervened to have a visa ban lifted. When Neruda did return, MacLeish introduced him at a celebrated 1966 reading at the 92nd Street Y. Neruda inscribed the book on this occasion, and on his departure sent him a warm telegram (laid in).
Relation
From the collection of Bill Fisher