From Base Materials by Jenny Lewis #Translation takes the reader on an

takes the reader on an illuminating and profoundly moving journey through Neruda's poetic development - from solitary childhood

that smells bad

the emerging shape of its failure and a depiction of the present world in the long shadow of revolution’s incompletion

for which he reached back to the expressionist era and also to the post-war Viennese avant-garde

A mother's parable to her daughter

From Base Materials by Jenny Lewis #Translation takes the reader on anThese poems are apocalyptic and sensory, coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend base matter and make sense of the world. Carcanet