100 LOVE SONNETS -Language: spanish

Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics. He also wrote bold and sensual sonnets. Now, more than fifty years after his death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of the lesser-known genre.

The sonnets are followed with Reflections on Reading Neruda by Toronto’s Poet Laureate emeritus A.F. Moritz / poet and translator Beatriz Hausner / Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate emeritus George Elliott Clarke, and ends with eight Questions for Discussion.

Translated and with an Afterword by Gustavo Escobedo
Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan

“This handsome, bilingual edition ... is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet’s expansive, idiosyncratic style.” —Globe and Mail

Pablo Neruda was one of the most famous poets of all time. From the 1940s on, his works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America. He is also very famous for his love poems, which have sold more than a million copies.

Gustavo Escobedo works as a teacher, a photographer, and a translator. His other translated work is The Wolf's Mouth which won numerous prizes in its original Spanish.

Rosemary Sullivan is a celebrated critic, editor, poet, and biographer. She is the author of, among others: Where the World Was; Betrayal of Anne Frank; The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out (biography); and editor of Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (anthology).

A. F. Moritz is the Poet Laureate emeritus of Toronto. His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He has also written seven nonfiction books, and translated eight books into English.

Beatriz Hausner is a published poet and the translator of some 20 works of literature, principally from Spanish into English. Many of her poems were collected in The Invisible Presence Sixteen Poets of Spanish America 1925-1995 and she is the author of a variety of full-length poetry collection. She is a former president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.

George Elliott Clarke’s many honors include being Canada’ Poet Laureate, winning the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement, a Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and a National Magazine Gold Medal for poetry. He is also the author of numerous collections of poetry, among others crossing a variety of genres.