Carribean & Latin American

Fully Empowered was first published in Spanish in 1962 and was one of Neruda’s favorites among his own works, and he specifically asked his finest translator, Alastair Reid, to translate it into English, Neruda loved this collection partly because it grew from the most fruitful period of his own ... More

In Isla Negra Pablo Neruda set out to explore his landscape, his roots and experience in an attempt to gather into unity the various "lives" he had left behind in the huge span of his writing career. From the more than a hundred poems he created a poetic autobiography centred round his home of Isla ... More

Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York... More

"Medieval Joke Poetry" examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the "Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer," Written in Galician-Portuguese, these 'songs of mockery and insult' make up a heter... More

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.... More

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young, unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text in this volume that continues to inspire lovers and poets.The Nobel Prizeawinning poetas mos... More

A beautifully packaged collection from "the greatest poet of the 20th century--in any language" (Gabriel Garc'a Mrquez). 12 illustrations.First published in 1924, "Veinte poemas de amor y una canciA3n desesperada" remains among Pablo Nerudaas most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, th... More

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more th... More

"Extravagaria" marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an ... More

The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by "his most enduring t... More

This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned,... More

"Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon" features nearly 50 of Neruda's poems and brings them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Unlike most other anthologies of his work, this edition is bilingual, with Mitchell's translation faced by Neruda's original Spanish-language work.Praise for Step... More

Readers enter a magical world through the delightful poetry of Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda and Luis Poirot's evocative photographs of Neruda's whimsical surroundings and possessions.... More

"This is pure Neruda at his prime, which is to say incomparable."-"Choice" ""The Separate Rose" represents Pablo Neruda at the peak of his art, and William O'Daly has done an important service by bringing it before American readers with such care."-"The Bloomsbury Review" The coast of Easter Island-... More

An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems."The Sea""A single entity, but no blood.""A single caress, death or a rose.""The sea comes in and puts our lives together""and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing""sin nights and days and men and living c... More

The themes are universal - love, loss, resistance, hope. The voice is distinctly Caribbean. The result is a soulful collection laced with power. These poems reflect the writer's deep engagement with her society and her skill in peeling away its layers to expose the core. This is a distillation of ev... More

More InformationHarvill SeckerGeneral & literary fictionISBN: 1860461867 Publication date: 0712199548 pagesB formatEAN: 9781860461866... More