by Pablo Neruda · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140186185
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«Selected Poems» is Pablo Neruda's poetry anthology, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Anthology of poems by Pablo Neruda, from the love lyricism of «Twenty Love Poems» to poetry of political and social commitment, conceived as the voice of those who lack one. Neruda's poetics, formulated in the essay «On Impure Poetry», champions a lyricism tied to everyday life and its contradictions.
This selection of poems was originally published in 1949; the 1992 edition offers the English translation by Andrew Kerrigan. Pablo Neruda received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
For readers of poetry and Latin American literature who want to discover Neruda's work in English.
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
