Pablo Neruda, Author, William C'Daly, Translator, William O'Daly, Translator Copper Canyon Press $11 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55659-041-2
The 74 poems in this collection consist entirely of questions. These questions appeal to the reader to supply images not answers. Exploiting the lag between perception and understanding, the Nobel laureate's poems evoke pictures that make sense on a
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Pablo Neruda, Author, W. S. Merwin, Translator, Jan Thompson Dicks, Illustrator Chronicle Books $12.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0320-5
This collection of poems, first published by Neruda at the age of 19 in 1924, caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality: ``I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire. / My mouth went across: a...
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Pablo Neruda, Author, Ilan Stavans, Editor , edited by Ilan Stavans,. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16 (359p) ISBN 978-0-374-26079-8
Perhaps the most popular modern poet in the world, the Chilean-born Neruda (1904–1973) won the Nobel Prize for an enormous body of verse that includes introspective lyrics of love and lust; sinuously enthusiastic “elemental odes”...
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Edited by Ilan Stavans. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (896p) ISBN 978-0-374-11528-9
The Chilean Nobel laureate, who died in 1973, combined stratospheric powers of invention with a fecundity that bordered on the prolix; among his many creations were 225 “odes,” almost all in very short lines, connecting accessible, democratic...
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Pablo Neruda, trans. from the Spanish by Forrest Gander. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $23 (160p) ISBN 978-1-55659-494-6
Recently discovered within the “jungle of the poet’s manuscripts,” these 21 untitled and previously unpublished poems, produced between the early 1950s and Neruda’s 1973 death, continue his tradition of political engagement, love of homeland, and...
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Pablo Neruda, Author, William O'Daly, Translator Copper Canyon Press $10 (80p) ISBN 978-0-914742-93-7
The passing reference in ""Gautama Christ'' to Richard Nixon and napalm is a rare reminder of the fate of the Nobel laureate, who died during the 1973 coup in Chile that overthrew President Salvador Allende and brought General Pinochet to power....
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Pablo Neruda, Author, William O'Daly, Translator Copper Canyon Press $15 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55659-018-4
In this bilingual collection, the late Nobel laureate establishes immediate intimacy with poems that are at once deeply personal, expansive and universal. Neruda does not embellish but keeps the purity of his emotions intact, lending the verses...
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Pablo Neruda, trans. from the Spanish by Sara Lissa Paulson, illus. by Paloma Valdivia. Enchanted Lion, $22.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59270-322-7
Intriguing questions with no answers make up this oversize dual-language volume by two Chilean creators, featuring Neruda’s sophisticated musings. Paulson’s translations of the poet’s lines are sometimes playful—“When I look once more at the sea,/...
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