The Essential Neruda: Selected
Poems (Bilingual Edition) (Spanish
Edition) by Pablo Neruda
Splendid Poetry!
This collection of Nerudas most essential poems will prove indispensable.
Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile
and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire
breadth and width of Nerudas various styles and themes. An impressive
group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert
Haas, Jim Harrison, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come
together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of
previously untranslated works are included as well. This selection sets the
standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Nerudas complete
oeuvre.
Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1971.

Personal Review: The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
(Bilingual Edition) (Spanish Edition) by Pablo Neruda
I got The Essential Neruda when it came out in 2004. I already loved
Neruda, and have the old Selected Poems edition (which unfortunately
ends at 1968, and some of the translations are just plain flat) plus the 20
Love Poems, Residence on Earth, Canto General, and some of the odes.
But the translators here (former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass just won
the Pulitzer!) just bring Neruda so alive, and the selection of poems just
captures his whole range of 'the many Pablos'. So when I came here today
to buy one as a gift, I'm pleased by the reviews of how great an
introduction to Neruda it is, but I want to stress how great it is as a book to
keep going back to again and again. Actually, to quote the great writer
Ariel Dorfman on the back cover of the book:
"What beter way to celebrate the hundred years of Neruda's glorious
residence on our earth than this selection of crucial works - in both
languages! A splendid way to being a love affair with out Pablo or, having
already succumbed to his infinite charms, revisit him passionately again
and again and yet again."
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