Book of Questions Selections

Book of Questions: Selections by Pablo Neruda is a collection drawn from the Chilean Nobel laureate’s extraordinary late work — a sequence of childlike, profound, and sometimes unanswerable questions that probe the nature of existence, time, colour, love, and the world. In poems like ‘Why do leaves know how to drop?’ and ‘Where does the rainbow end?’, Neruda finds in simple inquiry a form of deep philosophical and poetic investigation. The selected translations in this Chronicle Books edition capture the spirit of Neruda’s late style: direct, playful, and capable of sudden lyric intensity. For readers new to Neruda, this is a perfect introduction to a poet whose range extends far beyond the passionate love poetry for which he is most famous. For devotees, it is an essential addition to any collection.