Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974: Bilingual Edition

by Pablo Neruda, Ben Belitt (Translator), Manuel Duran (Introduction)

Overview

This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the strands of his great, seamless life's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802131454
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/12/1994
Series:	Neruda, Pablo
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition: English & Spanish
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1904

Date of Death:

September 23, 1973

Place of Birth:

Parral, Chile

Place of Death:

Santiago, Chile

Education:

University of Chile, Santiago

What People are Saying About This

David Ignatow

"For Ben Belitt, praise, nothing but praise for his translations. He has made the poems the product of an enthralled American poet immersed in an exotic world in which he must speak in American accents out of his training and upbringing, thus creating a distincly new contribution to the tones and rhythms of contemporary American literature. To my mind, there is no doubt that poets to come will learn and recognized what has been accomplished here: two worlds of this hemisphere as having been merged in language in which the spirit of each continent finds itself in fugue-like complement to the other, singing together."

Editorial Reviews

"Neruda... was a brave man who wished us well and generously left us an incomparable body of poetry, the finest in Spanish in this century." -- The New York Times Book Review

Frank MacShane

"What is most moving about the later Neruda is... the enormous generosity of his vision and his unfailing sense of humor. 'You learn poetry,' he said in 1956, 'moving step by step among things and beings, never isolating, but rather containing them all within a blind expansion of love.'" -- Review 76

Luis E Yglesias