Ode to Common Things
Ode to Common Things
Pablo Neruda
Book

I read in The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís that Pablo Neruda had a way of seeing ordinary objects as if all the stories he needed already existed in them. That idea fascinated me, and I was surprised to find he had written a book devoted entirely to such things.

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