false 5936 4 <div><b>The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez)</b><br><br>"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet."<br><br>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.<br></div> 1739475 1979 The Poetry of Pablo Neruda total:902|5:539|4:281|3:64|2:10|1:8| 902 4039 1214 81 4 0 false false Sat Dec 22 22:14:33 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 06 09:48:19 -0700 2009
With over 600 poems, this is a large and fairly representative collection covering sonnets, odes, cantos and free verse drawn from across the poet's entire career. I have been reading it on and off for a fairly long time and I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 27 20:04:37 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 28 18:51:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 10 09:12:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 09:17:25 -0700 2009
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.
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i really am enjoying that the book provides translations by several people; sometimes wheni read translations i forget that its not the original and then blame the original author, not the translator for a bad read....more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Thu Aug 02 22:59:05 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 21:45:15 -0700 2007 "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

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If you've never read Neruda then you're missing out. He's quite possibly my favorite poet -- I don't know, Whitman keeps him in a tight race.]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Aug 04 19:56:48 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 19:16:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 05 21:38:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:42:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 03 17:32:46 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 17:34:26 -0700 2009
]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Apr 20 19:03:57 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 19:04:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 09 21:47:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 22:20:34 -0700 2009 Que llamarse Pablo Neruda?

Pablo Neruda]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed May 27 19:10:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 19:10:54 -0700 2009 a poet so true, so clear.]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 24 21:17:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 21:18:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 07:09:12 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 07:10:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Oct 10 10:15:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 10:15:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 26 23:02:44 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 23:03:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 22:22:49 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 22:57:10 -0700 2008
How can I hope to do justice with a review? This is poetry at its most elemental. This is poetry that defines what poetry is - music.

His is spare writing which holds all adornments in contempt. Such is the skill involved that each meagre line is saturated with...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:22:17 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 17:34:58 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 31 18:42:40 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 18:49:02 -0800 2008
Yesterday I felt as if my ode
was never going to sprout.
At least it should
have been growing
a green leaf.
I scratched the soil: “Come up,
sister ode,”
I said,
“I promised to produce you,
don’t be afraid of me,
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