Not every literary biography has all those things going for it.

NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

He has written a critical edition of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and, in 2009, he published a short literary biography of the poet.

BBC: Caithness beach 'apt' site for poet Neruda's words

Instead, he embarked on a biography of an eccentric literary genius, H.

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