February 6, 2011
“I’d never read a word of Neruda until a customer came in to order a copy of his complete poems. Out of curiosity I picked up Full Woman, a slimmer volume, and found that I loved Neruda’s prose-poems. In his odes to everyday objects such as salt or his suit, he employs extraordinary imagery, made plain by his clipped, rhyme-less style. With often only a word to a line, it is as if each one is a revelation.”—Michael, Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis