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This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of previously untranslated works are included as well. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda's complete oeuvre.
Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
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My review of THE ESSENTIAL NERUDA (7/22/04):
In honor of Pablo Neruda’s 100th birthday on July 12, Mark Eisner and San Francisco’s City Lights Books have put together these new translations of some of the Chilean Nobel laureate’s most-admired poems. English translations face the Spanish originals, and the translator’s list is a who’s who of notables, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Haas, Jack Hirschman and John Felstiner. Though there’s always room to argue about which of Neruda’s many poems are the most essential, this book contains an excellent selection. It includes several sections of “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” and some other poems from Canto General, and his love poems also are well-represented. Such a wide sampling of Neruda in one volume makes this collection hard to top. (