The Poetry of Pablo Neruda [Paperback]

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language (Gabriel Garc?a M?rque)

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.

Pablo Neruda(1904-73), Chile's greatest poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.

Ilan Stavansis Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

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XII: THE RIVERS OF SONG

I. Carta a Miguel Otero Silva, en Caracas (1949)
Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)
V. To Miguel Hern?ndez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain

XIII: NEW YEAR'S CHORALE FOR THE COUNTRY IN DARKNESS

VIII. Chile's Voices
XIV. I Recall the Sea
XV. There's No Forgiving
XVII. Happy Year to My Country in Darkness

XIV: THE GREAT OCEAN

IV. The Men and the Islands
V. Rapa Nui
VIII. The Oceanics
IX. Antarctica
XI.La muerte
Death
XII. The Wave
XVII. The Enigmas
XXI. Leviathan
XXIII. Not Only the Albatross

XIV: I AM

I. The Frontier (1904)
III. The House
VI. The Traveler (1927)
VII. Far from Here
X. The War (1936)
XI. Love

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