The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
New translations of Neruda's most important poems, gathered to celebrate the centennial of his birth.
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New translations of Neruda's most important poems, gathered to celebrate the centennial of his birth.The Bloomsbury Review"The call for a more accessible collection of Neruda's important poems is answered with City Lights' The Essential Neruda, a 200-page edition that offers 50 of Neruda's key poems. The editors and translators know how to extract gold from a lifetime of prolific writing. If you want a handy Neruda companion and don't know where to begin, this is it."
Prefatory Note by Lawrence Ferlinghetti\ There have been many Pablos in history, and Pablo Neruda is one to exceed Picasso in the prolific production of great works, as well as in the depths of his proletarian empathies.\ I met this Pablo in the Hotel Havana Libre (once the Havana Hilton) in 1959 in the first days of revolutionary euphoria, and that night he spoke his poetry to several thousands of multi-ethnic Fidelistas (still in combat clothes) in the great government hall where the late dictator had held forth. His rapport with the masses was evident in every poem he spoke (with standing ovations), just as poems in this book speak to us all, Spanish-speaking or not.\ Neruda had told me before the reading, "I love your wide-open poetry" — by which he meant, I believe, the poetry of the Beat Generation that we had published in San Francisco and some of which had been published in translation in Lunes de Revolucion (the Monday literary supplement to the big daily).\ And I answered, "You opened the door." I hope this edition will open the door for the greater American public (who needs these messages).\ Lawrence Ferlinghetti San Francisco, January 2004
PrefaceIntroductionBody of woman3Inclined in the afternoons5I like you when you're quiet7I can write the saddest verses9Dead Gallop13Oneness17Ars Poetica19System of Gloom21The Phantom of the Cargo Ship23It Means Shadows29Only Death33Barcarole37Walking Around43Ode With a Lament47Entrance Into Wood51Autumn Returns55There's No Forgetting (Sonata)59I Explain Some Things63The Heights of Macchu PicchuäFrom air to air69Powerful death71And then on the ladder75Climb up with me79Stone upon stone85Down through the blurred splendor89Rise up and be born with me91The United Fruit Co95To everyone, to you99The Great Ocean103The Potter107Ode to a Chestnut On the Ground109Ode to the Book (II)115Ode to a Watch In the Night123Ode to Wine129The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunkards135The Great: Tablecloth137Full woman, carnal apple141I don't love you as if you were a rose143The Poet's Obligation145The word149The Sea155The People157Poetry167Those Lives171October Fullness175There Is No Clear Light179Insomnia183The Future Is Space185Right, comrade, it's the hour of the garden189The Egoist193Winter Garden197
\ The Bloomsbury Review"The call for a more accessible collection of Neruda's important poems is answered with City Lights' The Essential Neruda, a 200-page edition that offers 50 of Neruda's key poems. The editors and translators know how to extract gold from a lifetime of prolific writing. If you want a handy Neruda companion and don't know where to begin, this is it."\ \ \ \ \ "What better way to celebrate the hundred years of Neruda's glorious residence on our earth than this selection of crucial works - in both languages! - by one of the greatest poets of all time. A splendid way to begin a love affair with our Pablo or, having already succumbed to his infinite charms, revisit him passionately again and again and yet again." Ariel Dorfman\ \
