Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the editor of "All the Odes of Pablo Neruda" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and author of "A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States" (Basic Books).

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