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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
Series: Latin American Literature and Culture, 4
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The atom, a tuna, laziness, love--the everyday elements and
essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of
Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote three
books of odes during his lifetime. "Odas elementales" was published
in 1954, followed in subsequent years by "Nuevas odas elementales"
and "Tercer libro de las odas." Margaret Sayers Peden's selection
of odes from all three volumes, printed with the Spanish originals
on facing pages, is by far the most extensive yet to appear in
English. She vividly conveys the poet's vision of the realities of
day-to-day life in her translations, while her brief introduction
describes the genesis of the poems.
To write simply of simple things was a task the poet undertook
consciously, following his experiences in the Spanish Civil War,
the "social conversion" that resulted from a visit to Macchu
Picchu, and the writing of his epic "Canto general" (California,
forthcoming). The odes are arranged in brief, sinuous lines that
flow down the page and connect the poet to the animal, mineral, and
vegetable world, to people and objects, and to the landscape of
history. "Chile," Neruda once said in reference to the work of
sixteenth-century poet Alonso de Ercilla, "was invented by a poet."
In accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, he declared
that "We writers from the vast expanse of America] are called upon
to fill with words the confines of a mute continent, and we become
drunk with the task of telling and naming." The odes reflect what
Neruda saw as both an obligation and a privilege--the naming and
defining of his world.
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