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Essential Neruda Selected Poems

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ISBN-10: 0872864286

ISBN-13: 9780872864283

Edition: 2004

Authors: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Felstiner, Forrest Gander

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This collection of Neruda's 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 Neruda's 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 Neruda's complete oeuvre. Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in…    
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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.39" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Robert Frost, the quintessential poet of New England, was born in San Francisco in 1874. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Although he managed to support himself working solely as a poet for most of his life and holding various posts with a number of universities, as a young man he was employed as a bobbin boy in a mill, a cobbler, a schoolteacher, and a farmer. Frost, whose poetry focuses on natural images of New England, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times for: New Hampshire, Collected Poems, A Further Range, and A Witness Tree. His works are noted for combining characteristics of both romanticism and modernism. He also wrote A Boy's Will, North of…    

Preface
Introduction
From Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada (1924)
1. Cuerpo de mujer / Body of woman
7. Inclinado en las tardes / Inclined in the afternoons
15. Me gustas cuando callas / I like you when you're quiet
20. Puedo escribir los versos mas tristes / I can write the saddest verses
From Residencia en la tierra, I (1933)
Galope muerto / Dead Gallop
Unidad / Oneness
Arte poetica / Ars Poetica
Sistema sombrio / System of Gloom
El fantasma del buque de carga / The Phantom of the Cargo Ship
Significa sombras / It Means Shadows
From Residencia en la tierra, II (1935)
Solo la muerte / Only Death
Barcarola / Barcarole
Walking around / Walking Around
Oda con un lamento / Ode With a Lament
Entrada a la madera / Entrance Into Wood
Vuelve el otono / Autumn Returns
No hay olvido (sonata) / There's No Forgetting (Sonata)
From Tercera residencia (1947)
Explico algunas cosas / I Explain Some Things
From Canto general (1950)
Alturas de Macchu Picchu / The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Del aire al aire / From air to air
La poderosa muerte / Powerful death
Entonces en la escala / And then on the ladder
Sube conmigo / Climb up with me
Piedra en la piedra / Stone upon stone
A traves del confuso esplendor / Down through the blurred splendor
Sube a nacer conmigo / Rise up and be born with me
La United Fruit Co. / The United Fruit Co.
El Fugitivo XII: A todos, a vosotros / To everyone, to you
El gran oceano / The Great Ocean
From Los versos del capitan (1952)
El alfarero / The Potter
From Odas elementales (1954)
Oda a una castana en el suelo / Ode to a Chestnut On the Ground
Oda al libro (II) / Ode to the Book (II)
Oda a un reloj en la noche / Ode to a Watch In the Night
Oda al vino / Ode to Wine
From Estravagario (1958)
Fabula de la sirena y los borrachos / The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunkards
El gran mantel / The Great Tablecloth
From Cien sonetos de amor (1960)
Plena mujer, manzana carnal / Full woman, carnal apple
No te amo como si fueras rosa / I don't love you as if you were a rose
From Plenos poderes (1962)
Deber del poeta / The Poet's Obligation
La palabra / The word
El mar / The Sea
El pueblo / The People
From Memorial de Isla Negra (1964)
La poesia / Poetry
Aquellas vidas / Those Lives
Pleno octubre / October Fullness
No hay pura luz / There Is No Clear Light
Insomnio / Insomnia
El futuro es espacio / The Future Is Space
From El mar y las campanas (posthumous)
Si, camarada, es hora de jardin / Right, comrade, it's the hour of the garden
From Jardin de invierno (posthumous)
El egoista / The Egoist
Jardin de invierno / Winter Garden