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"The book is impressive for the number of pieces chose, the good taste of the selections, and above all, the mastery with which Ben Belitt has turned into English someof the finest and most difficult works of the celebrated Chilean poet." Hispania
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"We are not likely to get, in English, a more detailed, subtle, and sympathetic analysis of the complicated and enigmatic poet Pablo Neruda." The New Yorker
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"One of the greatest poets of the Spanish world... also one of the major poets of the twentieth century.... A robust, Whitmanesque surrealism surges forth like a jungle river.... Ben Belitt's translations are inspired." New York Times Book Review
Synopsis:
The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by his most enduring translator, the poet Ben Belitt” (Robert Creeley).
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
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Pablo Neruda
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"The book is impressive for the number of pieces chose, the good taste of the selections, and above all, the mastery with which Ben Belitt has turned into English someof the finest and most difficult works of the celebrated Chilean poet." Hispania
"Review"
by The New Yorker,
"We are not likely to get, in English, a more detailed, subtle, and sympathetic analysis of the complicated and enigmatic poet Pablo Neruda."
"Review"
by ,
"One of the greatest poets of the Spanish world... also one of the major poets of the twentieth century.... A robust, Whitmanesque surrealism surges forth like a jungle river.... Ben Belitt's translations are inspired." New York Times Book Review
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by Firebrand,
The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by his most enduring translator, the poet Ben Belitt” (Robert Creeley).
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