Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe

Description: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García, Pablo Picasso A beautifully packaged collection from "the greatest poet of the 20th century--in any language" (Gabriel Garca Mrquez). 12 illustrations. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Pablo Larraín A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Nerudas most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poets most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages. • Includes twelve sketches by Pablo Picasso • New introduction by Cristina García For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Author Biography Neftali Ricardo Reyes, whose pseudonym was to be Pablo Neruda, was born in Parral, Chile, in 1904. He grew up in the pioneer town of Temuco, briefly encountering Gabriela Mistral, who taught there for a time. In 1920 he went to Santiago to study, and the following year published his first collection of poetry,La Cancion de la Fiesta. A second collection, Crepusculario, brought him critical recognition; and in 1924 the hugely successful Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada appeared. From 1927 to 1943, Neruda lived abroad, serving as a diplomat in Rangoon, Colombo, Batavia, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and Mexico City. This is the period that saw the publication of the first two volumes of his celebrated Residencia en la Tierra. He joined the Communist Party of Chile after World War II, was prosecuted as a subversive, and began an exile that took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China. Already the most renowned Latin American poet of his time, he returned to Chile in 1952. He died there in 1973, having just seen the fourth edition of his Obras Completas through the press. In receiving the Nobel Prize in 1971, he had said that the poet must achieve a balance "between solitude and solidarity, between feeling and action, between the intimacy of ones self, the intimacy of mankind, and the relevation of nature."W. S. Merwin (translator; 1927–2019) published many highly regarded books of poems, for which he received a number of distinguished awards—the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and the Governors Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii among them. The U.S. poet laureate from 2010 to 2011, he translated widely from many languages, and his versions of classics such as The Poem of the Cid and The Song of Roland are standards.Cristina García (introducer) is the author of Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Table of Contents Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairIntroduction I. Body of a Woman II. The Light Wraps You III. Ah Vastness of Pines IV. The Morning Is Full V. So that You Will Hear Me VI. I Remember You As You Were VII. Leaning into the Afternoons VIII. White Bee IX. Drunk with Pines X. We Have Lost Even XI. Almost out of the Sky XII. Your Breast Is Enough XIII. I Have Gone Marking XIV. Every Day You Play XV. I Like for You to Be Still XVI. In My Sky at Twilight XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows XVIII. Here I Love You XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny XX. Tonight I Can Write The Song of Despair Selected Bibliography Suggestions for Further Reading Review By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Review Quote By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Excerpt from Book The Morning is Full The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye, the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs. Wind that bears off the dead leaves with a quick raid and deflects the pulsing arrows of the birds. Wind that topples her in a wave without spray and substance without weight, and leaning fires. Her mass of kisses breaks and sinks, assailed in the door of the summers wind. Es La Ma Details ISBN0142437700 Author Pablo Picasso Short Title 20 LOVE POEMS & A SONG OF DESP Language English Illustrator Pablo Picasso ISBN-10 0142437700 ISBN-13 9780142437704 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 861 Residence CL Birth 1904 Death 1973 Translator W.S. Merwin Imprint Penguin Classics DOI 10.1604/9780142437704 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2003-12-02 NZ Release Date 2003-12-02 US Release Date 2003-12-02 UK Release Date 2003-12-02 Pages 112 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Edition Description Bilingual edition Series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-12-02 Subtitle (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Audience General Illustrations 12 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6753452;

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