Yellow Heart (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Pablo Neruda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556590288 ISBN 13: 9781556590283

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1990

Synopsis

Poems in Spanish and English by the Chilean Nobel Prize winner discuss love and politics as he faces both his own illness and approaching death and the tensions leading up to the overthrow of the Chilean government

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About the Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)held diplomatic posts in Asian and European countries. After joining the Communist Party, Neruda was elected to the Chilean Senate but was forced to live in exile in Mexico for several years. Eventually he established a permanent home on Isla Negra. In 1970 he was appointed as Chile's ambassador to France; in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Reviews

Here is still another posthumous work by Neruda, the fifth published by Copper Canyon in a bilingual edition. Written just before Neruda's death from cancer in 1973, these poems present the usual themes and symbolisms yet have a lighter feel to them, as if the poet were tossing off as a joke the solemn end to a grand life, knowing full well, too, that Chile was about to be engulfed in a military coup backed by the United States. Nevertheless, the great Neruda is still in evidence: "Nobody knows what it is to swallow/the dust of defeat . . . and I alone was left, fenced in/ by fifty rabid kings." These few lines testify to the grandeur of Neruda's poetry at its best, as well as to his humanity. The passionate Latino poet comes through well in O'Daly's translation. Along with Vallejo and Lorca, Neruda's place in 20th-century poetry is well deserved. Essential.
- Ivan Arguelles, Univ. of California at Berkeley Lib.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556590288
• ISBN 13: 9781556590283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 109