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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

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

Called "the most prolific, influential and inventive poet of the Spanish language" (New York Times Book Review, 1969), Pablo Neruda wrote poems of unequaled grace, wit, and earthiness. In this, the most respected translation of his passionate book of love poems, Neruda's work shines. W. S. Merwin, n... More

In 1970, Editorial Lord Cochrane of Santiago de Chile published "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. A year later, Neruda received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Embellished with 23 watercolor paintings by his friend and artist Mario Toral, this edition originally published in 1970. The memora... More