Contains a comprehensive collection of poems by Chilean Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda that chronicle the humanity of nearly every significant historical event of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Introduction -- from Book of Twilight/ -- Crepusculario (1920-1923) -- FARWELL AND SOBS -- LOVE -- MARURI'S TWILIGHTS -- If God Is in My Verse -- My Soul -- from TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR/ -- VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR Y UNA CANCIÓN DESESPERADA (1923-1924) -- TWENTY LOVE POEMS -- I. Body of Woman -- II. The Light Wraps You -- IX. Drunk with Pines -- X. Hemos perdido aun -- We Have Lost Even -- XII. Your Breast Is Enough -- XIII. I Have Gone Marking -- XIV. Every Day You Play -- XV. Me gustas cuando callas -- I Like for You to Be Still -- XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows -- XVIII. Here I Love You -- XX. Tonight I Can Write -- LA CANCIÓN DESESPERADA -- THE SONG OF DESPAIR -- from RESIDENCE ON EARTH/ -- RESIDENCÍA EN LA TIERRA (1925-1945) -- RESIDENCE I -- I. -- Dead Gallop -- Alliance (Sonata) -- The Dawn's Debility -- Unity -- Joachim's Absence -- Fantasma -- Phantom -- Slow Lament -- We Together -- Tyranny -- Serenade -- Ars Poetica -- Ars Poetica -- Sonata and Destructions -- II. -- La noche del soldado -- The Night of the Soldier -- Contradicted Communications -- The Young Monarch -- III. -- Single Gentleman -- The Ghost of the Cargo Boat -- The Widower's Tango -- IV. -- It Means Shadows -- RESIDENCE II -- I. -- One Day Stands Out -- Sólo la muerte -- Only Death -- II. -- Walking Around -- Walking Around -- Walking Around -- Disaction -- The Destroyed Street -- Melancholy in the Families -- f0Maternity -- III. -- Ode with a Lament -- Material nupcial -- Nuptial Substance -- Sexual Water -- V. -- Oda a Federico García Lorca -- Ode to Federico García Lorca -- Ode to Federico García Lorca -- The Disinterred One -- VI. -- The Clock Fallen into the Sea -- Autumn Returns -- There Is No Oblivion (Sonata) -- RESIDENCE III -- I. -- The Drowned Woman of the Sky -- Waltz -- Brussels -- Naciendo en los bosques -- Born in the Woods -- II: Furies and Sorrows -- III: Meeting Under New Flags -- IV: Spain in Our Heart -- Invocation -- Bombardment/Curse -- Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich -- Tradition -- Madrid (1936) -- Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen -- Song to the Mothers of Dead Loyalists -- What Spain Was Like -- Batalla del Río Jarama -- Battle of the Jarama River -- Almería -- General Franco in Hell -- Triumph -- Landscape After a Battle -- Madrid (1937) -- Solar Ode to the Army of the People -- V. -- Canto a Stalingrado -- Song to Stalingrad -- Tina Modotti ha muerto -- Tina Modotti Is Dead -- Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories -- Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys -- Song to the Red Army on Its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia -- from CANTO GENERAL/ -- CANTO GENERAL (1938-1949) -- I: A LAMP ON EARTH -- I.. Amor America (1400) -- Vegetation -- III. The Birds Arrive -- IV. Los ríos acuden -- The Rivers Come Forth -- Orinoco -- Amazon -- V. Minerals -- VI. Man -- II: THE HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU -- I. From Air to Air -- III. El ser como el maíz -- Being like Maize -- V. It Was Not You -- VIII. Come Up with Me, American Love -- IX. Interstellar Eagle -- X. Stone Within Stone -- XII. Sube a nacer -- Arise to Birth -- III. THE CONQUISTADORS -- I. They Come Through the Islands (1493) -- III. Cortés -- V. Cholula -- VI. s26Alvarado -- VII. Guatemala -- IX. The Head on the Spear -- X. Homage to Balboa -- XV. La línea colorada -- The Red Line -- XVI. Elegy -- XX. Land and Man Unite -- XXII. Ercilla -- IV: THE LIBERATORS -- I. Cuauhtemoc (1520) -- II. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas -- Brother Bartolome de Las Casas -- III. Advancing in the Lands of Chile -- VIII. Lautaro (1550) -- XI. Lautaro Against the Centaur (1554) -- XVII. Commoners from Socorro (1781) -- XVIII. Tupac Amaru (1781) -- XIX. Insurgent America (1800) -- XXI. San Martin (1810) -- XXVII. Guayaquil (1822) -- XXXVII. Sandino (1926) -- XLII. The Tyrants Again -- XLIII. Llegará el día -- The Day Will Come -- V: THE SAND BETRAYED -- Perhaps, perhaps oblivion . . . -- I. -- The Hangmen -- Doctor Francia -- Rosas (1829-1849) -- Estrada -- Machado -- Martínez (1932) -- II. -- The Oligarchies -- Election in Chimborongo (1947) -- Diplomats (1948) -- The Bordellos -- Standard Oil Co. -- La United Fruit Co. -- United Fruit Co. -- The Beggars -- The Indians -- The Judges -- IV. -- Chronicle of 1948 (America) -- Paraguay -- Cuba -- The Traitor -- Acuso -- I Accuse -- The Victorious People -- VI: AMERICA, I DO NOT INVOKE YOUR NAME IN VAIN -- I. From Above (1942) -- II. An Assassin Sleeps -- III. On the Coast -- IV. Winter in the South, on Horseback -- V. Los crímenes -- Crimes -- VI. Youth -- VII. Climates -- VIII. Varadero en Cuba -- Varadero in Cuba -- XI. Hunger in the South -- XIII. A Rose -- XIV. Life and Death of a Butterfly -- XV. The Man Buried in the Pampa -- XVIII. America -- XIX. America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain -- VII: CANTO GENERAL OF CHILE -- Eternity -- II. I Want to Return to the South (1941) -- V. Saddlery -- Pottery Shop -- VII. Atacama -- X. Untilled Zones -- XII. Botnica -- Botany -- XV. Rider in the Rain -- XVI. Chile's Seas -- VIII: THE EARTH'S NAME IS JUAN -- I. Cristóbal Miranda -- (Shoveler, Tocopilla) -- VII. Antonio Bernales -- (Fisherman, Colombia) -- XII. Maestro Huerta -- (from the "La Despreciada" Mine, Antofagasta) -- XVI. Catastrophe in Sewell -- XVII. The Earth's Name Is Juan -- IX: LET THE WOODCUTTER AWAKEN -- III. Beyond Your Lands, America -- X: THE FUGITIVE (1948) -- I -- IV -- X -- XII -- XIII -- XI: THE FLOWERS OF PUNITAQUI -- II. Brother Pablo -- VII. Gold -- X. El poeta -- The Poet -- XI. Death in the World -- XII. Mankind.