Pablo Neruda Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Selected Odes of Pablo NerudaCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/17/2011ISBN-10: 0520269985EAN: 9780520269989ISBN: 9780520269989Publisher: University of California PressDescription: The atom, a tuna, laziness, love - the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas odas elementales and Tercer libro de las odas. Margaret Sayers Peden's selection of odes from all three volumes, printed with the Spanish originals on facing pages, is by far the most extensive yet to appear in English. She vividly conveys the poet's vision of the realities of day-to-day life in her translations, while her brief introduction describes the genesis of the poems. To write simply of simple things was a task the poet undertook consciously, following his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, the 'social conversion' that resulted from a visit to Macchu Picchu, and the writing of his epic Canto general (California, forthcoming). The odes are arranged in brief, sinuous lines that flow down the page and connect the poet to the animal, mineral, and vegetable world, to people and objects, and to the landscape of history.'Chile', eruda once said in reference to the work of sixteenth-century poet Alonso de Ercilla, 'was invented by a poet'. In accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, he declared that 'We [writers from the vast expanse of America] are called upon to fill with words the confines of a mute continent, and we become drunk with the task of telling and naming'. The odes reflect what Neruda saw as both an obligation and a privilege - the naming and defining of his world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 544gAuthor: Pablo NerudaTranslator: Margaret Sayers PedenContributor: Margaret Sayers Peden (Translated by), Margaret Sayers Peden (Introduction by)Genre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: Latin American Literature and CultureType: PoetryRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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