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Loading... Selected Poems: Pablo Neruda (English and Spanish Edition) (edition 1994)by Pablo Neruda, Ben Belitt (Translator), Luis Monguio (Introduction)
Work InformationPablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edición bilingüe) by Pablo Neruda
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quite a good selection of Pablo Neruda's poetry, with English translations alongside the original Spanish. However, Selected Poems is by no means comprehensive or even truly representative of Neruda's work. In my personal opinion, I found The Essential Neruda, a 2004 collection I read last year, to have more enjoyable and diverse selections. In Selected Poems, there were a number of poems which washed over me, but others, such as 'Tonight I Can Write', are so beautiful that they absolutely annihilate me. A handful of great poems can win over the reader of any poetry collection, and this book has plenty such poems. I didn't understand and appreciate every poem, but it is always nice to have poetic thoughts of the sort evoked by Neruda swimming around in your head, even when you can't grab hold of them. ( ) Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long (Pablo Neruda, "Don't go far off") I think this is just beautiful. Words can strike you like some "inner knowing". You have to be in the mood for it, though. Then it may feel like a revelation. We have lost even this twilight. ... Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? (Pablo Neruda, "Clenched Soul") no reviews | add a review
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 food stains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophesies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations, and taxes. The most comprehensive bilingual collection of Neruda, the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language, (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). No library descriptions found. |
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