The Poetry Of Pablo Neruda

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel Garciacute;a Maacute;rquez) "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 than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet." This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems, scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.

Pablo Neruda (1904-73), Chile's greatest poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

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XII: THE RIVERS OF SONG

I. Carta a Miguel Otero Silva, en Caracas (1949)
Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)
V. To Miguel Hernández, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain

XIII: NEW YEAR'S CHORALE FOR THE COUNTRY IN DARKNESS

VIII. Chile's Voices
XIV. I Recall the Sea
XV. There's No Forgiving
XVII. Happy Year to My Country in Darkness

XIV: THE GREAT OCEAN

IV. The Men and the Islands
V. Rapa Nui
VIII. The Oceanics
IX. Antarctica
XI. La muerte
Death
XII. The Wave
XVII. The Enigmas
XXI. Leviathan
XXIII. Not Only the Albatross

XIV: I AM

I. The Frontier (1904)
III. The House
VI. The Traveler (1927)
VII. Far from Here
X. The War (1936)
XI. Love


from THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES/
LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITáN (1951-1952)

LOVE

In You the Earth
The Queen
The Potter
September 8
Tus manos
Your Hands
Tu risa
Your Laughter
The Fickle One
The Son

THE FURIES

The Hurt
El sueño
The Dream
Oblivion
You Would Come

LIVES

The Mountain and the River
The Flag
Little America
Epithalamium
La carta en el camino
Letter on the Road

from ELEMENTAL ODES/
ODAS ELEMENTALES (1952-1957)

The Invisible Man
Oda a la alcachofa
Ode to the Artichoke
Ode to the Artichoke
Oda al átomo
Ode to the Atom
Oda a la crítica
Ode to Criticism

ri0Ode to Numbers
Ode to the Past
Ode to Laziness
Ode to the Earth
Ode to My Suit
Ode to Sadness
Ode to Wine

NEW ELEMENTAL ODES

Oda a la crítica (II)
Ode to Criticism (II)
Oda al dicdonario
Ode to the Dictionary
Ode to the Seagull
Ode to Firefoot
Oda a Walt Whitman
Ode to Walt Whitman

THIRD BOOK OF ODES

Ode to Bees
Ode to Bicycles
Ode to a Village Movie Theater
Ode to Age
Ode to a Stamp Album
Ode to Maize
Ode to the Double Autumn
Oda al viejo poeta
Ode to an Aged Poet

from EXTRAVAGARIA/
ESTRAVAGARIO (1957-1958)

To Rise to the Sky . . .
Pido silencio
I Ask for Silence
I'm Asking for Silence
And the City Now Has Gone
Repertoire
With Her
Point
Fear
Cuánto pasa en un día
How Much Happens in a Day
Soliloquy at Twilight
V
Horses
We Are Many
To the Foot from Its Child
Aquí vivimos
This Is Where We Live
Getaway
The Unhappy One
Pastoral
Bestiary
Autumn Testament


from VOYAGES AND HOMECOMINGS/
NAVEGACIONES Y REGRESOS (1957-1959)

Ode to Things
Ode to the Chair


from ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS/
CIEN SONETOS DE AMOR (1957-1959)

MORNING

III
IV
IV
VI
IX
IX
XI
XVI
XVII
XXVII

MIDDAY

XXXIV
XXXIV
XXXIX
XL
XLVII
XLVIII
XLVIII
L
LIII

EVENING

LV
LIX
LXIII
LXXVI
LXXVI

NIGHT

LXXX
XC
XCI
XCV
XCVII
C


fromp0 SONG OF PROTEST/
CANCIÓN DE GESTA (1958-1968)

IV. Cuba Appears
VI. Ancient History
XI. Treason
XII. Death
XIX. To Fidel Castro
XXII. So Is My Life
XXVII. Caribbean Birds
XXIX. No me lo pidan
Do Not Ask Me
XXXV. The "Free" Press
XL. Tomorrow Throughout the Caribbean


from THE STONES OF CHILE/
LAS PIEDRAS DE CHILE (1959-1961)

History
The Bull
Solitudes
The Stones of Chile
The Blind Statue
Buey
Ox
Theater of the Gods
Yo volveré
I Will Return
The Ship
The Creation
The Turtle
Las piedras y los pájaros
The Stones and the Birds
Al caminante
To the Traveler
Stones for María
Nada más
Nothing More


from CEREMONIAL SONGS/
CANTOS CEREMONIALES (1959-1961)

THE UNBURIED WOMAN OF PAITA

Prologue
I. The Peruvian Coast
II. The Unburied Woman
III. The Sea and Manuelita
IV. We Will Not Find Her
V. The Absent Lover
VI. Portrait
VII. In Vain We Search for You
VIII. Material Manuela
IX. The Game
IX. Riddle
XI. Epitaph
XII. She
XIII. Questions
XIV. Of All Silence
XV. Who Knows
XVI. Exiles
I Don't Understand
XVII. The Loneliness
XVII. The Flower
XIX. Goodbye
XX. The Resurrected Woman
XXI. Invocation
XXII. Now We Are Leaving Paita

THE BULL

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
s22VIII
IX

CORDILLERAS

I
II
III
IV
V
VI

CATACLYSM

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII

LAUTRéAMONT RECONQUISTADO

I
II
III
IV
V
VI

LAUTRéAMONT RECONQUERED

I
II
III
IV
V
VI

OCEAN LADY

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI


from FULLY EMPOWERED/
PLENOS PODERES (1961-1962)

0Deber del poeta
The Poet's Obligation
The Word
Ocean
The Sea
It Is Born
Planet
Serenata
Serenade
To Wash a Child
Ode to Ironing
To the Dead Poor Man
Goodbyes
Spring
To Don Asterio AlarcÓn, Clocksmith of Valparaíso
The Night in Isla Negra
Past
El pueblo
The People
Plenos poderes
Fully Empowered


from ISLA NEGRA/
MEMORIAL DE ISLA NEGRA (1962-1964)

I. WHERE THE RAIN IS BORN

The First Journey
The Father
The First Sea
The South
Sex
La poesía
Poetry
Shyness
Swan Lake
The Human Condition
Superstitions
The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri

II. THE MOON IN THE LABYRINTH

Loves: Terusa (I)
Loves: Terusa (II)
Bread-Poetry
My Crazy Friends
First Travelings
Opium in the East
Monsoons
October Fullness
Lost Letters

i0III. CRUEL FIRE

Ay! Mi ciudad perdida
Oh, My Lost City
Tal vez cambié desde entonces
Perhaps I've Changed Since Then
Revolutions
The Unknown One
Insomnia
Goodbye to the Snow
Tides
Exilio
Exile

IV. THE HUNTER AFTER ROOTS
&XXe Forest
Night
Mexican Serenade
Para la envidia
To Envy

V. CRITICAL SONATA

Ars Magnetica
To Those at Odds
Day Dawns
Solitude
It Is Not Necessary
Memory
The Long Day Called Thursday
What We Accept Without Wanting To
El futuro es espacio
The Future Is Space


from ART OF BIRDS/
ARTE DE PÁJAROS (1962-1965)

Migracíon
Migration

PAJARINTOS

Wandering Albatross
American Kestrel
Guanay Cormorant
Slender-Billed Parakeet
Gray Gull
Magellanic Woodpecker

INTERMISSION

Chilean Lapwing
Chilean Mockingbird

PAJARANTES

Dodobird


from A HOUSE IN THE SAND/
UNA CASA EN LA ARENA (1956-1966)

Amor para este libro
Love for This Book


from LA BARCAROLA/
LA BARCAROLA (1964-1967)

The Watersong Ends


from THE HANDS OF DAY/
LAS MANOS DEL DíA (1967-1968)

I. Guilty
XL. In Vietnam
LVIII. El Pasado
The Past
LX. Verb


from WORLD'S END/
FIN DEL MUNDO (1968-1969)

VII

The Seeker


XI

The Sadder Century


from SEAQUAKE/
MAREMOTO (1968)

Maremoto
Seaquake
Starfish
i0Jaiva
Farewell to the Offerings of the Sea


from STILL ANOTHER DAY/
AÚN (1969)

VI
VII
XII
XVII
XVII
XX
XXVIII


from THE FLAMING SWORD/
LA ESPADA ENCENDIDA (1969-1970)

XVIII. Someone


from STONES FROM THE SKY/
LAS PIEDRAS DEL CIELO (1970)

I
II
V
XI
XI
XIII
XV
XIX
XXIII
XXVIII
XXVIII


from BARREN TERRAIN/
GEOGRAFíA INFRUCTUOSA (1969-1972)

Numbered


from THE SEPARATE ROSE/
LA ROSA SEPARADA (1971-1972)

Men II
Men IX
Men X
Los hombres XI
Men XI
Men XIV


from A CALL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NIXON AND PRAISE FOR THE CHILEAN REVOLUTION/INCITACIÓN AL NIXONICIDIO Y ALABANZA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN CHILENA (1972-1973)


I. I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman
II. I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects
V. The Judgment
VII. Victory
IX. I Call upon You
XVIII. Come with Me
XVIII. Portrait of the Man
XXV. Against Death
XXX. Mar y amor de Quevedo
The Sea and the Love of Quevedo
XXXII. September 4, 1970


from THE SEA AND THE BELLS/
EL MAR Y LAS CAMPANAS (1971-1973)

Buscar
To Search
I Am Grateful
My Name Was Reyes
I Will Tell You
A Small Animal
It Rains
This Broken Bell


from 2000/
2000 (1971)

I. The Masks
IV. La tierra
The Earth
IX. Celebration


from ELEGY/
ELEGíA (1971-1972)

XIV
par

from THE YELLOW HEART/
EL CORAZÓN AMARILLO (1971-1972)

I Still Get Around
Love Song
Reject the Lightning
Disasters
Morning with Air
El tiempo que no se perdiÓ
Time That Wasn't Lost
Suburbs


from WINTER GARDEN/
JARDíN DE INVIERNO (1971-1973)

The Egoist
Gautama Cristo
Gautama Christ
Modestly
With Quevedo, in Springtime
Winter Garden
In Memory of Manuel and Benjamín
Animal of Light
Un perro ha muerto
A Dog Has Died
La estrella
The Star


from THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS/
LIBRO DE LAS PREGUNTAS (1971-1973)

I
VII
IX
IX
X
XI
XXI
XXXIX
XXXIX
XLI
XLV
LXV
LXXII


from SELECTED FAILINGS/
DEFECTOS ESCOGIDOS (1971-1973)

Triste canciÓn para aburrir a cualquiera
Sad Song to Bore Everyone
El Gran Orinador
The Great Urinator

HOMAGE:
FOURTEEN OTHER WAYS OF LOOKING AT PABLO NERUDA

MIGUEL ALGARíN

Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]
I Come from the South [Song of Protest]

APRIL BERNARD

From My Journey [The Sea and the Bells]

ROBERT BLY

I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]
The Strike [Canto General]
Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]

RAFAEL CAMPO

XLIV [One Hundred Love Sonnets]
LXVI [One Hundred Love Sonnets]
XCIV [One Hundred Love Sonnets]

MARTíN ESPADA

The Celestial Poets [Canto General]
In Salvador, Death [Song of Protest]
Octopi [Seaquake]

EDWARD HIRSCH

Ode to the Book I [Elemental Odes]
Ode to the Book II [Elemental Odes]

JANE HIRSHFIELD
0
Ode to Time [Elemental Odes]

GALWAY KINNELL

I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]

PHILIP LEVINE

Ode to Salt [Elemental Odes]

W. S. MERWIN

V. So That You Will Hear Me [Twenty Love Poems]
XVI. In My Sky at Twilight [Twenty Love Poems]

PAUL MULDOON

Ode to a Hare-Boy [Elemental Odes]

GARY SOTO

House [Ceremonial Songs]

MARK STRAND

Ode to the Smell of Firewood [New Elemental Odes]
Ode to a Pair of Socks [New Elemental Odes]
Ode to Enchanted Light [Third Book of Odes]

JAMES WRIGHT

Toussaint L'Ouverture [Canto General]

Bibliography
Spanish Editions
Translations into English
Biographical and Critical Works

Notes on Neruda's Life and Poetry
Acknowledgments
Index of First Lines