The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback

Pablo Neruda; Edited and with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans

ISBN 10: 0374529604 / ISBN 13: 9780374529604

Published by MacMillan Publishers, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishers
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374529604
• ISBN 13: 9780374529604
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez).

"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet."

This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems, scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.

About the Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-73), one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Farral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. His books include Residence on Earth, Canto General, Extravagaria, and Isla Negra.