Pablo Neruda’s long poem on Abraham Lincoln, written in exile.

Published in English as Let the Rail Splitter Awake, this is a political elegy rather than a biography. Lincoln to Neruda is the symbol of labour, democracy, fracture, and the unfinished work of justice in the Americas. Neruda’s voice is direct, angry, and lyrical without ornament, addressing power, violence, and responsibility across borders and centuries. A concise but forceful example of Neruda’s explicitly political writing.

This Blue Journeyman Press edition presents the poem as a small, deliberate object — closer to a pamphlet or intervention than a monument. It's lovely in this almost vinyl like wrapping.