| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780292760288 | | Publisher: University of Texas Press | | Publish Date: 6/1/1986 | | Buy.com Sku: 30036938 | | Item#: RNRJ5H | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 5.75L x 0.5T |
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| | | "Sensual as a tropical night swirling in honeysuckle and jazz, with its lush textures and effervescent lyricism, this book is like a smokey champagne which two lovers, mesmerized by each other's presence, are sipping".--San Francisco Examiner.
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These poems, originally published in Chile in 1959, were written to Neruda's third wife, Matilde Urrutia, during the period 1955 to 1957. Divided into sections named for the phases of the passing day, this collection proves that the charged political and activist poet has an equally mesmerizing voice for love. An introduction opens this bilingual edition.
| Author Bio| Pablo Neruda | | Neruda, whose mother died soon after his birth, was originally named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He finished his schooling in 1920, at which time he began using the name Pablo Neruda (Jan Neruda was a 19th-century Czech poet whom he greatly admired) and changed his name legally in 1946. Neruda's first book, "Crepusculario", was published in 1923. Deeply committed to social reform, he began working for the government in Chile in 1927, when he was appointed to the Chilean consulate, first in Burma, then Ceylon, Java, and Singapore. He was the Chilean consul in Buenos Aires in 1933-34, then served in Spain during the Spanish Civil War--an experience he wrote about in "Spain in the Heart" (1937). Neruda was an enthusiastic traveler, and spent much of his life on the road. His last political appointment was ambassador to France in 1971-72, and he died in Santiago in 1973. Because of his reputation as the "poet of enslaved humanity," Neruda was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953 and, in 1971, the Nobel Prize in literature. He died a few days after the overthrow of the Socialist government of Salvador Allende. |
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