Book description
Pablo Neruda, el gran poeta chileno del siglo xx, premio Nobel de Literatura en 1971, es mucho más que un poeta político, comprometido o de denuncia. También nos ha dejado la sencillez optimista de las odas, esos homenajes llenos de amor a las cosas concretas (la madera, un tomate, una…
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1 author picked Selected Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I fell in love with Pablo Neruda and his poetry when I read this book, initially for a course called the Poet’s Voice in grad school. I’ve been reading it ever since. The book takes me through Neruda’s entire career, from 1924, when he published Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, to 1967, when he published La Barcarola.
This book is the story of a life in poems. When I read this book, I discovered that I could write about anything because he did. I took hypnotic walks with him through his consular postings in Burma, Sri…
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