THERE is something preposterous about picking individual poems or even collections out of this boundlessness," the Swedish Academy's secretary said last week of Pablo Neruda's.
That California has come to embody such a vision of boundlessness is a little strange, since the dream of California is as much the dream of disappointment as of hopethe dream .
In an ending that evokes America's geographical boundlessness, draws on Psalm 68 to declare that blacks will rise on the world's historical stage, and then recites the abolitionist .