A bilingual collection of Neruda's poems mostly written when Neruda was a self-exiled diplomat in isolated regions of South Asia. A vortex of time, of loneliness, cycles of the natural world, decay, destruction, silence, resurrection; of luminous solitude, blue oblivion, and of such deep melancholy that at one time Neruda considered renouncing the whole book and withdrawing it from circulation.

English and Spanish.

Residencia I/Residence I (1925-31) - - Residencia II/Residence II (1931-35) - - Tercera residencia/Third residence (1935-45).