The 14 poems were found in a book titled “Black Island Album,” after the house in central Chile which Neruda, his third and last wife Matilde Urrutia and her niece Alicia Urrutia shared, according to Nurieldin Hermosilla.

The lawyer and Neruda collector said he bought the book recently from a book dealer, who in turn had acquired it from an anonymous seller.

Neruda, who died at 69 in 1973, just 12 days after dictator Augusto Pinochet’s coup, is famous for his love poems as well as his “Canto General” — an epic poem about South America’s history and its people.

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