Synopsis
"Extravagaria" was one of Neruda's favorite collections and marks an important stage in the progress of his poetry. It was written at the point in his life when he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and had come to rest in Isla Negra, the small settlement on the Pacific coast that became his last home. The poems celebrate this coming to rest, this rediscovery of the sea and the land. In "Extravagaria" Neruda evolved a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than his earlier work. Written in what he called his "autumnal" period, the sixty-eight poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside. Finally, in the long "Autumn Testament," Neruda assesses himself and his writings. -- From publisher's description.
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About Pablo Neruda
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Pablo Neruda
1904–1973
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda)
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