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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 861
EAN: 9780395544181
Edition: Bilingual
ISBN: 0395544181
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: September 10, 1990
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment to the communist faith. Born in 1904 in the rainy south of Chile, he enjoyed from an early age the luck of attention. One of his first books, Twenty Love Poems, became a bible for lovers in the Spanish language, and confirmed him in his poet's vocation. At the same time he pursued a lifelong career as a diplomat, serving in a series of consular posts in the Far East and Europe. In 1971, while serving as Chilean ambassador to France, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In a famous essay, "On Impure Poetry," Neruda calls for "a poetry as impure as old clothes, as a body with its foodstains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophesies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations, and taxes."
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This collection, in my opinion, is the best book of Neruda's poems for readers in English. It contains the majority of his best poems, and it has a few translators (but not too many, four altogether) so we can say how different peoples interpretations read differently. That being said, these are some of the best translators of Neruda, and it has a great introduction by Alastair Reid.
In addition to what it contains, the book itself is well made, a very good size and feel to it.
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Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz are among the greatest Latin American Poets of the 20th century.
Neruda's images can be allusive and clear at the same time. He finds beauty in the ordinary and beyond it, in the concrete and in the feelings, in the spirit and in the physical being. His poetry is free and timeless.
I love these lines from Ah Vastness of Pines:
"In you the rivers sing and my soul flees in them
as you desire, and you send it where you will."
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This is a wonderful collection of poems by Neruda in a bilingual edition. I'm planning to use it in a course I'm teaching in Fall '08.
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I was a rookie when it comes to reading stylized writings like that of Pablo Neruda. I ordered the book as a friend suggested thinking it would be an impressive addition to my library not realizing that I would really enjoy his deep, thought-provoking and yet whimsical poems. My recommendation is to try it, you'll like it!!
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Neruda was my companion during a 7 months journey and i remember clearly as water how many times i took this book with me to read it in front of the ocean. I am not very fond to poetry but with Neruda its impossible not in fall in love with the magic of words. You should have this book in your hands and heart.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 861
EAN: 9780395544181
Edition: Bilingual
ISBN: 0395544181
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: September 10, 1990
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin