Love Poems Contributor(s): Neruda, Pablo (Author), Walsh, Donald D. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811217299 ISBN-13: 9780811217293 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: Charged with sensuality and passion, Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winners oeuvre. This wonderful book collects Nerudas most passionate verses. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 861.62 |
LCCN: 2007040666 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 3.8" W x 5.9" (0.18 lbs) 64 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover's body: today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor.... Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda took refuge in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda's most passionate verses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Neruda, Pablo: - Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile. He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile. |