Residence on Earth

Neruda's first great work and the expression of his mature voice, political, engaged and committed where Neruda speaks not only for the victims of repression such as his friend and fellow poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca, but for entire continents. The spontaneity and directness of Neruda's voice finds its great subject in Residence on Earth, as he became "the people's poet" addressing the reader with poems that are realistic and refer to the or-dinary, exalting the basic things of existence while speaking for a politically committed vision of a reformed world.