. >> the day a young carlos baron met pablo neruda, his life changed. >> carlos baron: it's a live thing that we're playing with. it's not just a historical thing in the past. >> now he returns to his chilean homeland with a play, a troupe, and a vision for what theatre can be. >>> and here in yosemite valley julia parker preserves a tradition of her native american ancestors. >> julia parker: you want to touch the basket? you can touch a basket. how can you tell a story that most people coming into the valley are not really aware of? >> and josephine taylor in ink. this time on spark. [ ♪music ]

at the university of massachusetts, amherst-- creative writing, latino poetry, and the work of pablo neruda he's published 16 books, and his collection of poems, the republic of poetry, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. >> at 16, i worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads-- yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as i slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. no gloves-- fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. sluggish by 9:00 p.m., the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and gather slits thinner than the crevices of the skin; hidden. then the glue would sting, hands oozing till both palms burned at the punch clock. ten years later, in law school, i knew that every legal pad was glued with the sting of hidden cuts; that every open law book was a pair of hands upturned and burning. ( applause ) ♪ >>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> the right to vote was sacrosanct because it was the thing that came with your citizenship. it was the great equaliz

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. >> so the funeral of pablo neruda came after the death of salvador allende?> yes, and that is why people were shouting salvador allende, presidente. >> that clearly has so informed your work been a backdrop, even though they are novels. >> it is. i totally think if i had stayed in chile, i would not be a writer and a was to be a lousy journalist, but a very happy one. many lives changed in chile, not only with the coup, but before when salvador allende was elected. it was a horrible situation for many people in chile. half the country did not support the government. from a distance, you can see both sides and understand that what happened was the consequence of allende being elected, during the time of the cold war when the united states was never going to allow a socialist government -- they had cuba, so they would never allow it. >> "maya's notebook" and the characters she meets when she goes to chile? >> it is a strange book because the idea is a girl, teenager, who gets in trouble, and deep, deep trouble. the inspiration was my granddaughter nicole who wa