Pablo Neruda
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.
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Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Watermelon", read by Ilan Stavans (editor, All The Odes)
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.
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Pablo Neruda; Edited by Ilan Stavans
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form
Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded...
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I Explain a Few Things
Pablo Neruda; Edited by Ilan Stavans
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive...
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda; Edited and with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márque)
"In his work a continent...
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Fully Empowered
Pablo Neruda; Translated and Introduction by Alastair Reid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems.
"The Sea"
A single entity, but no blood.
A single caress, death or a rose.
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Memoirs
Pablo Neruda; Translated by Hardie St. Martin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize
The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when...
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Extravagaria
Pablo Neruda; Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Extravagaria marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on...
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Passions and Impressions
Pablo Neruda; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; Edited by Matilde Neruda
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
These prose pieces display the same adventurousness, gift for observation and lyrical exactitude that mark Neruda's poetry.
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Isla Negra
Pablo Neruda; Translated by Alastair Reid; Afterword by Enrico M. Santí
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had...
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The Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta
Pablo Neruda
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Pablo Neruda; Preface by Robert Pring-Mill; Translated by Nathaniel Tarn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian...
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