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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

by Pablo Neruda

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ISBN13: 9780872864283
ISBN10: 0872864286
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Publisher Comments:

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.

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." –The Bloomsbury Review

Review:

"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."Ariel Dorfman

Review:

"Selling Well in Local Independent Bookstores: A group of distinguished poets, scholars and translators, including Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell, have collaborated to fashion this new translation of 50 poems drawn from the vast canon of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, all to mark the centenary of his birth on July 12."-The Washington Post

Review:

In a feature on National Poetry Month, USA Today called The Essential Neruda one of three must-have new poetry titles.

Review:

"...The Essential Neruda will prove to be, for most readers, the best introduction to Neruda available in English. In fact, I can think of few other books that have given me so much delight so easily. At only 234 pages (bilingual), it somehow manages to convey the fullness of Neruda's poetic arc: Reading it is like reading the autobiography of a poetic sensibility (granted, the abridged version)."- The Austin Chronicle

About the Author

Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, his breadth of vision and wide range of themes are extraordinary, and his work continues to inspire new generations of writers.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780872864283
Subtitle:
Selected Poems
Editor:
Eisner, Mark
Translator:
Felstiner, John
Editor:
Eisner, Mark
Author:
Pablo
Author:
Neruda, Pablo
Author:
Neruda
Author:
Eisner, Mark
Author:
A
Author:
Pablo Nerud
Translator:
Felstiner, John
Publisher:
City Lights Books
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Subject:
General
Subject:
Caribbean & Latin American
Subject:
Neruda, Pablo
Subject:
Latin America - General
Subject:
General Poetry
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Bilingual
Abridged:
Y
Series Volume:
107-952
Publication Date:
April 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
Spanish
Pages:
199
Dimensions:
8.5 x 6 in

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