Return of the Gift by Michael O'Neill PBS Special Commendation Summer 2018
Paul Sutherland Neruda addresses his younger self

Neruda addresses his younger self and urges

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Return of the Gift by Michael O'Neill <b> PBS Special Commendation Summer 2018 <br></b> Paul Sutherland Neruda addresses his younger selfMichael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the poet speaks of and to his personal and historical life and also explores themes of elegy and friendship. Memories are woven vividly throughout a thematically varied yet coherent collection, in which a