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name: Mark Eisner
about: NERUDA: The Biography of a Poet now in paperback.A Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography (hardcover edition titled "The Poet's Calling")"Reads like a beautifully written novel: attentive to scene, momentum, and rich with evocative details. Bravo!" —Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban“Empathetic but unflinching when occasion calls for criticism, Eisner weaves his subject’s stanzas that resonate with the poet’s personal stories. A definitive biography and instant classic.” —Library Journal "Efficient and moving... Eisner doesn't let the enchantment of the verse soften his disapproval of the poet's serial adultery or mistreatment of women, and questions Neruda's self-appointed "people's poet" status. [Eisner's] descriptions NERUDA: The Biography of a Poet now in paperback.A Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography (hardcover edition titled "The Poet's Calling")"Reads like a beautifully written novel: attentive to scene, momentum, and rich with evocative details. Bravo!" —Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban“Empathetic but unflinching when occasion calls for criticism, Eisner weaves his subject’s stanzas that resonate with the poet’s personal stories. A definitive biography and instant classic.” —Library Journal "Efficient and moving... Eisner doesn't let the enchantment of the verse soften his disapproval of the poet's serial adultery or mistreatment of women, and questions Neruda's self-appointed "people's poet" status. [Eisner's] descriptions are poetry themselves..." —Publisher's Weekly"A thoughtful and valuable book, linking the meaning of Neruda's public life to the state of our world now."—The Hudson Review RESISTENCIA: Poems of Protest and Revolution now out from Tin House!"Resistencia is alive with bravery, feminism, strength, agency, protest, power and hope." ― Ms. Magazine"Exactly the kind of book this world needs more of. . . . This is a must-read." ― Book Marks"A stunning collection of revelations and witness...Indispensable."--Luis Alberto Urrea "Resistencia is as uplifting as choral music and as devastating as the news."― San Francisco ChronicleFor more, please visit my web site. Thanks.Paz, pan, flores y amor,Mark ...more