Selected poems
(Book)
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Tarn, Nathaniel, editor,
Kerrigan, Anthony, translator.
Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, writer of introduction, translator.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems.
Kerrigan, Anthony, translator.
Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, writer of introduction, translator.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems.
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
460.81 N358
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460.81 N358
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Book
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508 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
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English and Spanish.
General Note
"Originally published in England by Jonathan Cape Ltd. First American edition by Delacorte Press, 1972"--Title page verso
General Note
Includes indexes.
Description
In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment to the communist faith. Born in 1904 in the rainy south of Chile, he enjoyed from an early age the luck of attention. One of his first books, Twenty Love Poems, became a bible for lovers in the Spanish language, and confirmed him in his poet's vocation. At the same time he pursued a lifelong career as a diplomat, serving in a series of consular posts in the Far East and Europe. In 1971, while serving as Chilean ambassador to France, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In a famous essay, On Impure Poetry, Neruda calls for a poetry as impure as old clothes, as a body with its food stains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophesies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations, and taxes. The most comprehensive bilingual collection of Neruda, the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language, (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Neruda, P., Tarn, N., Kerrigan, A., Reid, A., Neruda, P., & Merwin, W. S. 1. (1990). Selected poems (A bilingual edition). Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pablo Neruda et al.. 1990. Selected Poems. Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pablo Neruda et al.. Selected Poems Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Neruda, Pablo, et al. Selected Poems A bilingual edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
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