The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language (Gabriel Garc a M rque)

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/01/2005
ISBN: 9780374529604
Pages: 1040
Weight: 2.21lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 1.87d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/15/2005 pg. 34