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"Neruda Wrote Me A Poem"

Roa Lynn ’60 wrote a piece that appeared in The New Yorker earlier this summer about having lunch with Pablo Neruda in June, 1968, and the poem he wrote for her inspired by that meeting. Lynn links her memory of Neruda to hearing the news of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and an attempted murder she witnessed from the window of a bus while traveling in Argentina. 

Roa Lynn and Patrick Morgan
were moored in these waters... From "19" [Roa Lynn and Patrick Morgan] by Pablo Neruda