Dos milWhat more auspicious way to celebrate the new millennium than with Pablo Neruda's 2000, translated into English. In these poems Neruda reflects on the destructive role of technology, on the deterioration of the planet's ecological health, and on the brutal oppression of the Third World. But, ultimately, 2000 is a meditation that celebrates humankind's struggle to survive and regenerate itself at the entrance to the second millennium. |