The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language" (Gabriel García Márque)

"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."

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.

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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language" (Gabriel García Márque)

"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."

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.

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The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language" (Gabriel García Márque)

"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."

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374529604
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 04/01/2005
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 1040
Product dimensions: 5.52(w) x 8.17(h) x 1.88(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-73), Chile's greatest poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1904

Date of Death:

September 23, 1973

Place of Birth:

Parral, Chile

Place of Death:

Santiago, Chile

Education:

University of Chile, Santiago

Table of Contents

continued

XII: THE RIVERS OF SONG

I. Carta a Miguel Otero Silva, en Caracas (1949)

Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)

V. To Miguel Hernández, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain

XIII: NEW YEAR'S CHORALE FOR THE COUNTRY IN DARKNESS

VIII. Chile's Voices

XIV. I Recall the Sea

XV. There's No Forgiving

XVII. Happy Year to My Country in Darkness

XIV: THE GREAT OCEAN

IV. The Men and the Islands

V. Rapa Nui

VIII. The Oceanics

IX. Antarctica

XI. La muerte

Death

XII. The Wave

XVII. The Enigmas

XXI. Leviathan

XXIII. Not Only the Albatross

XIV: I AM

I. The Frontier (1904)

III. The House

VI. The Traveler (1927)

VII. Far from Here

X. The War (1936)

XI. Love

from THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES/

LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITÁN (1951-1952)

LOVE

In You the Earth

The Queen

The Potter

September 8

Tus manos

Your Hands

Tu risa

Your Laughter

The Fickle One

The Son

THE FURIES

The Hurt

El sueño

The Dream

Oblivion

You Would Come

LIVES

The Mountain and the River

The Flag

Little America

Epithalamium

La carta en el camino

Letter on the Road

from ELEMENTAL ODES/

ODAS ELEMENTALES (1952-1957)

The Invisible Man

Oda a la alcachofa

Ode to the Artichoke

Ode to the Artichoke

Oda al átomo

Ode to the Atom

Oda a la crítica

Ode to Criticism

ri0Ode to Numbers

Ode to the Past

Ode to Laziness

Ode to the Earth

Ode to My Suit

Ode to Sadness

Ode to Wine

NEW ELEMENTAL ODES

Oda a la crítica (II)

Ode to Criticism (II)

Oda al dicdonario

Ode to the Dictionary

Ode to the Seagull

Ode to Firefoot

Oda a Walt Whitman

Ode to Walt Whitman

THIRD BOOK OF ODES

Ode to Bees

Ode to Bicycles

Ode to a Village Movie Theater

Ode to Age

Ode to a Stamp Album

Ode to Maize

Ode to the Double Autumn

Oda al viejo poeta

Ode to an Aged Poet

from EXTRAVAGARIA/

ESTRAVAGARIO (1957-1958)

To Rise to the Sky . . .

Pido silencio

I Ask for Silence

I'm Asking for Silence

And the City Now Has Gone

Repertoire

With Her

Point

Fear

Cuánto pasa en un día

How Much Happens in a Day

Soliloquy at Twilight

V

Horses

We Are Many

To the Foot from Its Child

Aquí vivimos

This Is Where We Live

Getaway

The Unhappy One

Pastoral

Bestiary

Autumn Testament

from VOYAGES AND HOMECOMINGS/

NAVEGACIONES Y REGRESOS (1957-1959)

Ode to Things

Ode to the Chair

from ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS/

CIEN SONETOS DE AMOR (1957-1959)

MORNING

III

IV

IV

VI

IX

IX

XI

XVI

XVII

XXVII

MIDDAY

XXXIV

XXXIV

XXXIX

XL

XLVII

XLVIII

XLVIII

L

LIII

EVENING

LV

LIX

LXIII

LXXVI

LXXVI

NIGHT

LXXX

XC

XCI

XCV

XCVII

C

fromp0 SONG OF PROTEST/

CANCIÓN DE GESTA (1958-1968)

IV. Cuba Appears

VI. Ancient History

XI. Treason

XII. Death

XIX. To Fidel Castro

XXII. So Is My Life

XXVII. Caribbean Birds

XXIX. No me lo pidan

Do Not Ask Me

XXXV. The "Free" Press

XL. Tomorrow Throughout the Caribbean

from THE STONES OF CHILE/

LAS PIEDRAS DE CHILE (1959-1961)

History

The Bull

Solitudes

The Stones of Chile

The Blind Statue

Buey

Ox

Theater of the Gods

Yo volveré

I Will Return

The Ship

The Creation

The Turtle

Las piedras y los pájaros

The Stones and the Birds

Al caminante

To the Traveler

Stones for María

Nada más

Nothing More

from CEREMONIAL SONGS/

CANTOS CEREMONIALES (1959-1961)

THE UNBURIED WOMAN OF PAITA

Prologue

I. The Peruvian Coast

II. The Unburied Woman

III. The Sea and Manuelita

IV. We Will Not Find Her

V. The Absent Lover

VI. Portrait

VII. In Vain We Search for You

VIII. Material Manuela

IX. The Game

IX. Riddle

XI. Epitaph

XII. She

XIII. Questions

XIV. Of All Silence

XV. Who Knows

XVI. Exiles

I Don't Understand

XVII. The Loneliness

XVII. The Flower

XIX. Goodbye

XX. The Resurrected Woman

XXI. Invocation

XXII. Now We Are Leaving Paita

THE BULL

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

s22VIII

IX

CORDILLERAS

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

CATACLYSM

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

LAUTRÉAMONT RECONQUISTADO

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

LAUTRÉAMONT RECONQUERED

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

OCEAN LADY

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

from FULLY EMPOWERED/

PLENOS PODERES (1961-1962)

0Deber del poeta

The Poet's Obligation

The Word

Ocean

The Sea

It Is Born

Planet

Serenata

Serenade

To Wash a Child

Ode to Ironing

To the Dead Poor Man

Goodbyes

Spring

To Don Asterio Alarcón, Clocksmith of Valparaíso

The Night in Isla Negra

Past

El pueblo

The People

Plenos poderes

Fully Empowered

from ISLA NEGRA/

MEMORIAL DE ISLA NEGRA (1962-1964)

I. WHERE THE RAIN IS BORN

The First Journey

The Father

The First Sea

The South

Sex

La poesía

Poetry

Shyness

Swan Lake

The Human Condition

Superstitions

The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri

II. THE MOON IN THE LABYRINTH

Loves: Terusa (I)

Loves: Terusa (II)

Bread-Poetry

My Crazy Friends

First Travelings

Opium in the East

Monsoons

October Fullness

Lost Letters

i0III. CRUEL FIRE

Ay! Mi ciudad perdida

Oh, My Lost City

Tal vez cambié desde entonces

Perhaps I've Changed Since Then

Revolutions

The Unknown One

Insomnia

Goodbye to the Snow

Tides

Exilio

Exile

IV. THE HUNTER AFTER ROOTS

Brother Cordillera

What Is Born with Me

Appointment with Winter

The Hero

The Forest

Night

Mexican Serenade

Para la envidia

To Envy

V. CRITICAL SONATA

Ars Magnetica

To Those at Odds

Day Dawns

Solitude

It Is Not Necessary

Memory

The Long Day Called Thursday

What We Accept Without Wanting To

El futuro es espacio

The Future Is Space

from ART OF BIRDS/

ARTE DE PÁJAROS (1962-1965)

Migracíon

Migration

PAJARINTOS

Wandering Albatross

American Kestrel

Guanay Cormorant

Slender-Billed Parakeet

Gray Gull

Magellanic Woodpecker

INTERMISSION

Chilean Lapwing

Chilean Mockingbird

PAJARANTES

Dodobird

from A HOUSE IN THE SAND/

UNA CASA EN LA ARENA (1956-1966)

Amor para este libro

Love for This Book

from LA BARCAROLA/

LA BARCAROLA (1964-1967)

The Watersong Ends

from THE HANDS OF DAY/

LAS MANOS DEL DÍA (1967-1968)

I. Guilty

XL. In Vietnam

LVIII. El Pasado

The Past

LX. Verb

from WORLD'S END/

FIN DEL MUNDO (1968-1969)

VII

The Seeker

XI

The Sadder Century

from SEAQUAKE/

MAREMOTO (1968)

Maremoto

Seaquake

Starfish i0Jaiva

Farewell to the Offerings of the Sea

from STILL ANOTHER DAY/

AÚN (1969)

VI

VII

XII

XVII

XVII

XX

XXVIII

from THE FLAMING SWORD/

LA ESPADA ENCENDIDA (1969-1970)

XVIII. Someone

from STONES FROM THE SKY/

LAS PIEDRAS DEL CIELO (1970)

I

II

V

XI

XI

XIII

XV

XIX

XXIII

XXVIII

XXVIII

from BARREN TERRAIN/

GEOGRAFÍA INFRUCTUOSA (1969-1972)

Numbered

from THE SEPARATE ROSE/

LA ROSA SEPARADA (1971-1972)

Men II

Men IX

Men X

Los hombres XI

Men XI

Men XIV

from A CALL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NIXON AND PRAISE FOR THE CHILEAN REVOLUTION/INCITACIÓN AL NIXONICIDIO Y ALABANZA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN CHILENA (1972-1973)

I. I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman

II. I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects

V. The Judgment

VII. Victory

IX. I Call upon You

XVIII. Come with Me

XVIII. Portrait of the Man

XXV. Against Death

XXX. Mar y amor de Quevedo

The Sea and the Love of Quevedo

XXXII. September 4, 1970

from THE SEA AND THE BELLS/

EL MAR Y LAS CAMPANAS (1971-1973)

Buscar

To Search

I Am Grateful

My Name Was Reyes

I Will Tell You

A Small Animal

It Rains

This Broken Bell

from 2000/

2000 (1971)

I. The Masks

IV. La tierra

The Earth

IX. Celebration

from ELEGY/

ELEGÍA (1971-1972)

XIV

par

from THE YELLOW HEART/

EL CORAZÓN AMARILLO (1971-1972)

I Still Get Around

Love Song

Reject the Lightning

Disasters

Morning with Air

El tiempo que no se perdió

Time That Wasn't Lost

Suburbs

from WINTER GARDEN/

JARDÍN DE INVIERNO (1971-1973)

The Egoist

Gautama Cristo

Gautama Christ

Modestly

With Quevedo, in Springtime

Winter Garden

In Memory of Manuel and Benjamín

Animal of Light

Un perro ha muerto

A Dog Has Died

La estrella

The Star

from THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS/

LIBRO DE LAS PREGUNTAS (1971-1973)

I

VII

IX

IX

X

XI

XXI

XXXIX

XXXIX

XLI

XLV

LXV

LXXII

from SELECTED FAILINGS/

DEFECTOS ESCOGIDOS (1971-1973)

Triste canción para aburrir a cualquiera

Sad Song to Bore Everyone

El Gran Orinador

The Great Urinator

HOMAGE:

FOURTEEN OTHER WAYS OF LOOKING AT PABLO NERUDA

MIGUEL ALGARÍN

Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]

I Come from the South [Song of Protest]

APRIL BERNARD

From My Journey [The Sea and the Bells]

ROBERT BLY

I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]

The Strike [Canto General]

Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]

RAFAEL CAMPO

XLIV [One Hundred Love Sonnets]

LXVI [One Hundred Love Sonnets]

XCIV [One Hundred Love Sonnets]

MARTÍN ESPADA

The Celestial Poets [Canto General]

In Salvador, Death [Song of Protest]

Octopi [Seaquake]

EDWARD HIRSCH

Ode to the Book I [Elemental Odes]

Ode to the Book II [Elemental Odes]

JANE HIRSHFIELD

0

Ode to Time [Elemental Odes]

GALWAY KINNELL

I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]

PHILIP LEVINE

Ode to Salt [Elemental Odes]

W. S. MERWIN

V. So That You Will Hear Me [Twenty Love Poems]

XVI. In My Sky at Twilight [Twenty Love Poems]

PAUL MULDOON

Ode to a Hare-Boy [Elemental Odes]

GARY SOTO

House [Ceremonial Songs]

MARK STRAND

Ode to the Smell of Firewood [New Elemental Odes]

Ode to a Pair of Socks [New Elemental Odes]

Ode to Enchanted Light [Third Book of Odes]

JAMES WRIGHT

Toussaint L'Ouverture [Canto General]

Bibliography

Spanish Editions

Translations into English

Biographical and Critical Works

Notes on Neruda's Life and Poetry

Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines

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