Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (English and Spanish Edition)

Records the selected works of a leading Latin American poet, presenting the verses in both English and Spanish to emphasize his political and social themes. Cover Title Page Copyright CONTENTS Introduction by Luis Monguio Translator's Foreword Toward An Impure Poetry RESIDENCE ON EARTH (1925-1945) Dream Horse Savor Fantom Nocturnal Collection Ars Poetica Falsified Documents Burial in the East Gentleman Alone Ritual of My Legs Signifying Shadows Walking Around Ode with a Lament From: Three Material Songs Alberto Rojas Jimenez Comes Flying There's No Forgetting (Sonata) From: The Woes and the Furies A Few Things Explained How Spain Was GENERAL SONG (1950) Some Beasts The Heights of Macchu Picchu Soldier Asleep Heart of Magellan (1519) Poets Celestial Procession in Lima: 1947 The United Fruit Co. The Beggars Sleeping Assassin Youth The Dictators Hunger in the South I Want to Go South Again: 1941 Horseman in Rain Christobal Miranda Toward Mineral The Poet Open Sea Leviathan The Enigmas ELEMENTAL ODES (1954-1957) Artichoke A Watch in the Night Boy with a Hare A Smell of Cordwood In Praise of Oil You Flame-Foot! Diver A Lemon Double Autumn Black Pantheress Girl Gardening A Light from the Sea Poet Grown Old VOYAGES AND HOMECOMINGS (1959) Things Breaking Piano Cat From: Elephant BOOK OF VAGARIES (1958) Old Women By the Sea Stationary Point Pastoral V. Sonata with Some Pines Selected Bibiography Born in Chile in 1904, Pablo Neruda first won recognition as a poet at the age of sixteen. Beginning in the twenties, the Chilean government sent him on a series of consular missions. His active role in radical politics from 1936 on resulted in conflict with the government, expulsion, and exile. He returned to Chile in 1953, enveloped in a cloud of political controversy, but firmly established as one of the two or three leading poets of Latin America. This selection, with facing Spanish texts, covers the period from 1925 through 1960 and includes poems the three series of "Residencia en la tierra", "Canto general", three books of "Odes", "Navegaciones y regresos" and "Estravagario" -- clearly showing the scope of Neruda's writing from the polemical and affirmative to the most surreal, irrational, and hermetic. The penetrating Introduction by Luis Monguió thoroughly discusses Neruda's position in both literature and politics, and Ben Belitt's Foreword explores Neruda's style and poetics. -- From publisher's description The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by "his most enduring translator, the poet Ben Belitt” Edited And Translated By Ben Belitt. Introd. By Luis Monguió. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 318-320). Edited And Translated By Ben Belitt ; Introduction By Luis Monguió. Bibliography: P. 318-320.