Pablo Neruda is a Chilean poet, he died in 1973, he published his first book of poems at 16, joined the communist party, ran for president of Chile in 1969. He published over 60 books in his lifetime. Won the Nobel prize for poetry in 1971. His memoirs were published 4 years after he died in 1977.
In his memoirs he writes candidly about being poor, being rich, having sex with as many women as possible, loving only one woman (and then later another one), fighting the government, being the government, hanging out with Pablo Picasso, Mahatma Ghandi, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Mao Tsetung, Louis Aragon and various other famous alcoholics, paedophiles and working class heroes.
For an old man he was really proud of being pretty wasted for a large period of his life - which is okay with me.
and he wrote some very beautiful poetry.
he was also alot more serious than this photo suggests
Neruda is probably my favourite dead poet.
I drew this picture for him.
The resemblance is unmistakable. Good choice in pens!