Pablo Neruda was the 1969 Communist Party Candidate for the presidency of
Chile. If, of course, the back cover of my Penguin 'Selected Poems' can be
believed.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Weiss
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 7:26 AM
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Subject: Re: POETS AS POLITICIANS
Cardenal, Ortega
At 07:10 PM 7/1/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Matthew Francis wrote:
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>> Chris Hayden writes:
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>> As actual poet politicians you have Byron and Mao.
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>> And Lamartine. And Yeats. And Andrew Marvell MP.
>>
>D'Annunzio. Also to some extent Mayakovsky and Mickiewicz.
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