Somehow I've spent much of the past two decades working on projects related to Pablo Neruda, beginning by developing, editing, and contributing translations to City Lights’ 2004 The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. The latest, Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco), was a Finalist for the 2019 PEN/ Bograd Weld Prize for Biography. I'm still working on a documentary film on him. An earlier version was narrated by Isabel Allende. Now, though, I'm moving away from Pablo. I co-edited Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, just published by Tin House, featuring an introduction by Julia Alvarez. I am currently living in Mexico City, working on a book that explores the interweaving forces of Tina Modotti’s art and life when she lived here during the 1920s.


I was involved in the early stages of the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, lived in a cabin in northern Michigan as well as southern Chile...www.markeisner.net