News, Reviews, and InterviewsUp at Words Without Borders this week, Suzanne Jill Levine remembers all of the times she sat down to dinner with Pablo Neruda over his lifetime.…
Baghdad
- February 6, 2015
January 7, 2013The Tigris River in Baghdad. Photo NewsHour/FlickrFor nearly two years, I worked on poems about my father’s early years in Baghdad. Every now and again, I slipped an occasional question to my dad, hop…
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