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Pablo Neruda: A New Decade (Poems 1958-1967)
by Neruda, Pablo; Ben Belitt [Introduction, Editor]; Belitt and Alastair Reid [Translated from the Spanish]
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1969 Stated first printing, first bilingual edition with Spanish/English text. Book with some crimping to cloth overlay at spine ends and a touch of rubbing to bottom edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with soft crimping to spine ends and a tiny rubbed spot to upper spine fold, else fine. A lovely copy.
Synopsis
In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment to the communist faith. Born in 1904 in the rainy south of Chile, he enjoyed from an early age the luck of attention. One of his first books, Twenty Love Poems, became a bible for lovers in the Spanish language, and confirmed him in his poet's vocation. At the same time he pursued a lifelong career as a diplomat, serving in a series of consular posts in the Far East and Europe. In 1971, while serving as Chilean ambassador to France, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In a famous essay, "On Impure Poetry," Neruda calls for "a poetry as impure as old clothes, as a body with its foodstains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophesies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations, and taxes."
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- Idler Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022589
- Title
- Pablo Neruda: A New Decade (Poems 1958-1967)
- Author
- Neruda, Pablo; Ben Belitt [Introduction, Editor]; Belitt and Alastair Reid [Translated from the Spanish]
- Illustrator
- Harold Mantell [Cover Photo]; Seymour Leichman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Chile, Latin Literature, 1971 Nobel Prize.
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