false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172771135m/214888.jpg 214888 14 <B>New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial.</B> In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. <P> <I>Residence on Earth</I> is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (<I>Review</I>). "In <I>Residence on Earth</I>," wrote Amado Alonso, "the tornado of fury will no longer pass without lingering, because it will be identified with [Neruda's] heart." 2906799 1972 Residence on Earth/Residencia en la Tierra total:470|5:290|4:123|3:49|2:6|1:2| 470 2103 612 32 5 0 false false Wed Apr 15 07:48:54 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:41:29 -0700 2009 Octavio Paz, there is a verse in Neruda's poem "Estatuto del Vino (Ordinance of Wine)" from this collection that just draws my mind to the open road every time I read it:

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I'd maybe throw Lorca in there, too, for surrealism that's not like entering someone's private room in which the doors and windows lock and shutter themselves upon entry.
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