Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an
homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an
artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own
friendship with Federico Garcia Lorca and his favourite places in
Chile. He was in his late forties when he committed himself to
writing an ode a week, and in the end he produced a total of 225,
which are dispersed throughout his varied oeuvre. This bilingual
volume, edited by Nan Stavans, a distinguished translator and
scholar of Latin American literature, gathers all Neruda's odes for
the first time in any language. Rendered into English by an
assortment of accomplished translators, including Philip Levine,
Paul Muldoon, Mark Strand, and Margaret Sayers Peden, collectively
they read like the personal diary of a man in search of meaning who
sings to life itself, to our connections to one another, and to the
place we have in nature and the cosmos. All the Odes is also a
lasting statement on the role of poetry as a lightning rod during
tumultuous times.
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