|
List Price: $13.00Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 861.62
EAN: 9780374506483
ISBN: 0374506485
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: January 01, 1967
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 90118
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symbolic qualities of a personal 'venture into the interior' as the poem progresses, exploring both the roots of the poet's identity and the history of Latin America. This translation has been rendered by the distinquished poet Nathaniel Tarn and is presented in a bilingual edition, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Bilingual edition, but English translations not recommended
I don't really feel it is necessary to add my humble opinion about Neruda, his poetry, or this particular collection of poems. If you are even considering purchasing this book, then you are on the right track. I would, however, like to add a few comments about this particular edition.
I was somewhat confused because one reviewer stated the book was only in English, although the book claims to be a bilingual edition. I purchased it anyway due to the difficutly in general of finding ... Read More
Rating: - I printed this very book. I have to give it 5 stars.
I printed this book in 1986 in Bandon, Oregon using a Vandercook Universal #3 Press, Lutetia type from Harold Berliner's Typefoundry on Arches laid paper.
There are several inaccurate assumptions in the reviews here. Most importantly, this is not a Tarn translation. It is by the poet David Young, editor of Field Magazine at Oberlin College. His translations of Rilke are equally stunning.
This is an English only edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux owns ALL English versions ... Read More
Rating:  - Neruda never misses
Every review here mentions the spectacular nature of Neruda's captivating poem. As he said himself, he follows the philosophy of Rimbaud and arms himself with a "burning patience" that allows him to "enter splendid cities." However, the translation falls short of the quality of Neruda's words. Tarn inserts his own interpretations/images in his word choice which result in the creation of a new poem--ocassionally distant or discordant with the original. (quick example: in Canto XII, Neruda twice uses ... Read More
Rating: - masterful
Neruda is easily one of the 20th centuries greatest poets. The Heights of Macchu Picchu is an excellent poem (Tarn's translation is a good one). It weakens a bit towards the end, but the first 2/3 of the poems is wonderful stuff. And Robert Pring-Mill prefaces this edition with a great essay that really takes you into the meaning of Neruda's poem.
Rating: - Neruda: one of the greatest Latin American Poets .
Pablo Neruda, born in Chile 1904, is one of the greatest Latin American Poets to have livedwas one of Latin America�s greatest poets.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (considered by some to be his finest poem) was inspired by his journey to this famed ruined Peruvian Inca city. These poems take on a progressive journey within both the past of Latin America and the roots of the poet himself.
Lovers and devoted students of poetry will be caught up in Neruda's poetic power, hopefully capturing ... Read More
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 861.62
EAN: 9780374506483
ISBN: 0374506485
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: January 01, 1967
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 90118
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux