In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by
the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that
he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of
poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The collection was printed by soldiers on
the front lines of the war, and later incorporated into the third volume
of Neruda's revolutionary collection, Residence on Earth. This
bilingual New Directions Bibelot edition presents Spain in Our Hearts
as a single book as it was first published, a tribute to Neruda's
everlasting spirit.