 canto general is pablo neruda's tenth book of poems. it was first published in mexico in 1950, by talleres grÃ¡ficos de la naciÃ³n. neruda began to compose it in 1938. "canto general" ("general song") consists of 15 sections, 231 poems, and more than 15,000 lines. this work attempts to be a history or encyclopedia of the entire american western hemisphere, or new world, from a hispanic american perspective. ==the xv cantos== *first canto. a lamp on earth. *second canto. the heights of macchu picchu *third canto. the conquistadors *fourth canto. the liberators *fifth canto. the sand betrayed *sixth canto. america, i do not invoke your name in vain *seventh canto. canto general of chile *eighth canto. the earthâs name is juan *ninth canto. let the woodcutter awaken *tenth canto. the fugitive *eleventh canto. the flower of punitaqui *twelfth canto. the rivers of song *thirteenth canto. new yearâs chorale for the country in darkness *fourteenth canto. the great ocean *fifteenth canto. i am == the heights of macchu picchu== "'the heights of macchu picchu" (las alturas de macchu picchu) is canto ii of the canto general. the twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into english regularly since even before its initial publication in spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by hoffman reynolds hays  in the tiger's eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of new york from 1947â1949, and followed closely by a translation by waldeen  in 1950 in a pamphlet called let the rail splitter awake and other poems for a marxist publishing house in new york. the first mass-marketed commercial publication of the piece did not come until 1966 with nathanial tarn's translation,
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