Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century A prolific inspirational poet he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes notably love death grief & despair His poetry celebrates the dramatic Chilean landscape & rages against the exploitation of his people for whom he became a national hero He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 for 'a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny & dreams' This book presents fifty of his most essential poems in dynamic new translations the result of an unprecedented collaboration between a team of poets translators & leading Neruda scholars who came together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems Also including some previously untranslated works this bilingual edition sets the standard for a general high-quality introduction to Neruda's complete oeuvre The Essential Neruda
Includes:: translations by Mark Eisner John Felstiner Forrest Gander Robert Hass Jack Hirschman Stephen Kessler Stephen Mitchell & Alastair Reid with an introduction by Mark Eisner & a foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti