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When I was a boy Neruda called me Policarpo

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The author recalls the period in his childhood when he and his parents lived in Mexico with the poet Pablo Neruda, describing the many things he learned from the poet, such as how to swim, how to eat grasshoppers, and how to stand up for one's beliefs

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Language
English
Pages
84

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Cover of: When I was a boy Neruda called me Policarpo
When I was a boy Neruda called me Policarpo
2006, Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Belligerent badger: United fruit company
War: Twenty love poems: 20. I can write the saddest verses
Spoiled spider: Heights of Macchu Picchu: XI. Down through the blurred slendor
Tarzans of acapulco
Fugitive: XII. To everyone, to you
Caviar for tia ant: Great tablecloth
Invisible stroke of fate: Poetry
Like taking a bone from a dog

Edition Notes

Translation of:Policarpo y el tío Pablo

Published in
Toronto, Berkeley
Genre
Juvenile literature, Biography

The Physical Object

Pagination
84 p. :
Number of pages
84

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17237067M
Internet Archive
wheniwasboynerud0000dlan
ISBN 10
0888997264
ISBN 13
9780888997265
Library Thing
1553535
Goodreads
237633

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