Hernan Loyola is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Sassari. His books include Ser y morir en Pablo Neruda, Neruda. La biografia literaria, and El joven Neruda. He has also published a critical edition on Residencia en la tierra, and a new edition of the Neruda's Complete Works. He is also the editor of Pablo Neruda. Antologia esencial, the classic Pablo Neruda. Antologia poetica, and the recent Pablo Neruda. Antologia general. Greg Dawes is a Distinguished Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at North Carolina State University. He is the Editor and Founder of A contracorriente. Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos and Editorial A Contracorriente. He is the author of Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990, Verses Against the Darkness: Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics, Poetas ante la modernidad. Las ideas esteticas y politicas de Vallejo, Huidobro, Neruda y Paz, and Multiforme y comprometido. Neruda despues de 1956.
