Review (PDF) Selected Poems: Pablo Neruda (English And Spanish Edition)
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).
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; 1st Evergreen Ed edition (January 10, 1994)
Language: English, Spanish
ISBN-10: 0802151027
ISBN-13: 978-0802151025
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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"I wrote down five verses:one green,one shaped like a breadloaf,the third like a house going up,the fourth one, a ring,the fifth onesmall as a lightning flash...Then came the critics: one deaf,and one gifted with tongues,and others and others:the blind and the hundred-eyed,the elegant onesin red pumps and carnations,others decently cladlike cadavers...some coiled in the foreheadof Marx or thrashing about in his whiskers;others were English,just English..." ~ Excerpt from "Oda a la critica (Ode to criticism)"Pablo Neruda remains the master of the understated employing the most subtle linguistic flourish and layers of meaning even while he is eviscerating critics and expressing no desire to write for their pleasure. This is Neruda, the straight shooter with a crooked eye. The witty raconteur who leaves his audience ever slightly unsure if they are standing on the outside of some inside joke. The consummate sage who maintains a peculiar complexity being still simple enough to contemplate twice before forming an opinion without feeling foolish. Each poem is a self contained anecdote enlisting object, emotion or location to convey a story beneath a story. Some moments touch upon the political while others are personal. Some conclusions are sober while others are downright silly. When I lean into a page of Neruda, I anticipate arising each time with a new appreciation of the fluidity, continuity and harmony of each word unleashed, but is this really Neruda or merely my projection of meaning upon his creation?
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