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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (Editor), John Felstiner
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Overview

New translations of Neruda's most important poems, gathered to celebrate the centennial of his birth.

Synopsis

New translations of Neruda's most important poems, gathered to celebrate the centennial of his birth.

The Bloomsbury Review

"The call for a more accessible collection of Neruda's important poems is answered with City Lights' The Essential Neruda, a 200-page edition that offers 50 of Neruda's key poems. The editors and translators know how to extract gold from a lifetime of prolific writing. If you want a handy Neruda companion and don't know where to begin, this is it."

About the Author, Pablo Neruda

When presenting the legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Academy proclaimed, "Neruda is like catching a condor with a butterfly net. Neruda, in a nutshell, is an unreasonable proposition: the kernel bursts the shell."

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Editorials

The Bloomsbury Review

"The call for a more accessible collection of Neruda's important poems is answered with City Lights' The Essential Neruda, a 200-page edition that offers 50 of Neruda's key poems. The editors and translators know how to extract gold from a lifetime of prolific writing. If you want a handy Neruda companion and don't know where to begin, this is it."

"What better way to celebrate the hundred years of Neruda's glorious residence on our earth than this selection of crucial works - in both languages! - by one of the greatest poets of all time. A splendid way to begin a love affair with our Pablo or, having already succumbed to his infinite charms, revisit him passionately again and again and yet again." Β– Ariel Dorfman

Book Details

Published
April 1, 2004
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780872864283

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