Stones of the Sky - Kagean Book Author:Pablo Neruda, James Nolan This suite is Neruda's last love song to the Earth. As the title suggests, the "man of decay" (Neruda is dying of cancer) addresses not ordinary stones, but cosmic ones: stones that reconcile immobile permanence and the clarity of spiritual flight. When the poet meets his crystallized self, the encounter "takes on an eerie brilliance" -The Vi... more »llage Voice. Bilingual with introduction.« less