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Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda By Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda


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The perfect gift for Valentine's Day

Selected Poems
contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile.

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda Summary

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda

The perfect gift for Valentine's Day

Selected Poems
contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statements and a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive and celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet.

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda Reviews

The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers -- Carol Ann Duffy * Daily Telegraph *
His love poems have fuelled romances around the world * Independent *
One of the greatest love poets of all time -- Christopher Hitchens * Observer *

About Pablo Neruda

Born Neftal-Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in southern Chile in 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. His first book, Crepusculario ('Twilight') was published in 1923. The following year, he published Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada ('Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'), which turned him into a celebrity. In 1927 he began his long career as a diplomat, serving as Chilean consul in numerous places including Burma, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico and France. He was elected to the Chilean Senate in 1943 but later expelled for being a Communist. In 1952 the government withdrew the order to arrest leftist writers and political figures, and Neruda returned to Chile. For the next twenty-one years, he continued a career that integrated private and public concerns and became known as the people's poet. During this time, Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died of leukaemia in Santiago, Chile in 1973.

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GOR008068169
9780099561293
0099561298
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2012-02-02
512
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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