In this compelling collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketing Neruda and Latin American poetry in general in the United States.
In a long poem, the Chilean poet says farewell to his land and people and considers the human spirit, personal commitment, and the history of his culture.
" 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.
The first authoritative biography of the most enduring poet of the twentieth century 'This is a magnificent biography' HAROLD PINTER 'Feinstein's biography is fuelled by an infectious enthusiasm for the poems: this is its greatest strength ...
This bilingual selection of more than 50 of Nerudas best poems--edited and with an Introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets--also includes some poems ...