New Releases by Pablo Neruda

Playful and irreverent, filled with improvisational spirit, Neruda delivers a book called "Essential" by Library Journal.

Neruda assures us stones are alive as the man of decay sings his last love song.

The sound of ships'' bells, sea waves, and migratory birds fuel Neruda''s longing to retreat from life''s noisy busyness. Stripped to essentials, these poems are some of the last Neruda ever wrote, as he pulled "one dream out of another." Includes the final lovesong to his wife, written in the past tense: "It was beautiful to live / When you lived!" Bilingual with introduction. "Deeply personal, expansive, and universal... majestic and understated beauty."ÑPublishers Weekly

Facing death from cancer, Neruda speaks to the genuine loves that nourished his life.

Suitable for Neruda enthusiasts, and also for nature and literature lovers.

The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, and Java, in Spain during the civil war, and in Mexico; and his service as a Chilean senator. Neruda, a Communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes and then to Europe; his travels took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda''s friend Salvador Allende. Many of the century''s most important literary and artistic figures were Neruda''s friends, and figure in his memoirs--Garcia Lorca, Aragon, Picasso, and Rivera, among them--and also such political leaders as Gandhi, Nehru, Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara. In his uniquely expressive prose, Neruda not only explains his views on poetry and describes the circumstances that inspired many of his poems, but he creates a revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century''s true men of conscience.

Extravagaria marks an important stage in Neruda''s progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an "autumnal period" (as the poet himself called it). In this book, Neruda developed a lyric poetry decidedly more personal than his earlier work.

Neruda''s masterpiece epic poem about the history of a continent and its people.

"Libro inedito del premio Nobel Pablo Neruda, el gran poeta chileno. El prologo, escrito por el mismo autor, se eleva a la altura del poema. Lucido, sensual, barroco, combativo, el autor prologa la literatura propia y ajena haciendo gala de su mejor verbo, de su extraordinaria perspicacia y de su apabullante capacidad para crear imagenes bellisimas, para cantar la literatura con la mejor poesia."

This book of epic and lyric poems is the first book that any poet -- in Cuba or anywhere else -- dedicated to the Cuban Revolution and the Caribbean peoples. Ardently alive today, they sing of dignity to the indignant, of hope to the hopeless, of justice in spite of the unjust, of equality in spite of the exploiters, of truth in spite of the liars and of the great, brotherhood of true fighters.

"Spain in the Heart is a book that comes back to haunt us every time that the pentagons of the world start the motors of their death machines and proceed to invade, massacre and burn an innocent people. Now we open it once again, and discover that it hasn''t changed, that it is still unyielding, ample, made of multiple voices gloriously singing as the milicianos march on". -- Fernanco Alegria"My book, Spain in the Heart was printed (during the Spanish Civil War) in a unique way. I believe few books, in the extraordinary history of so many books, have had such a curious birth and destiny.The soldiers learned to set type. But there was no paper. They found an old paper mill and decided to make it there. A strange mixture was concocted, in the midst of falling bombs, in the midst of battle. They threw everything they could get their hands on into the mill, from an enemy flag to a bloody tunic of a Moorish soldier. And in spite of the unusual materials used and the total inexperience of its manufacturers, the paper turned out to be very beautiful...My book was the pride of those men who had worked to bring out my poetry in defiance of death, and I learned that many carried copies of the book in their knapsacks, instead of their own food and clothing. With their knapsacks over their shoulders, they set out on the long march to France. The endless column walking to exile was bombed hundreds of times. Soldiers fell and the books were strewn over the road...The last copies of this impassioned book that was born and perished in the midst of fierce fighting were burned in a bonfire". -- Pablo Neruda, from Memoirs

Dealing with the speeches of two major poets, one known as the poet and the other as the anti poet of Chile. The speeches recorded in this volume expound and defend two views of poetry. English translations and a critical introduction have also been included.

Presented in English beside the original Spanish-language poems, this edition makes several Pablo Neruda poems available in English—shining jewels that celebrate Neruda''s ability to explore landscapes of the heart and mind through the canto or sacred song. The universal message of the poems remains timeless.

A bilingual edition that makes available for the first time a substantial selection of Neruda''s Elemental Odes, originally published in Spanish in three volumes. The Odes were written in the mid-fifties when Neruda was at the height of his powers, and are explorations and celebrations of man''s relation to the natural and man-made world. They are straightforward and immediate and are considered his most approachable and popular work. 67 odes are printed in this volume of which about a dozen have appeared (in different translations) in English collections of Neruda before.

Thought by many to be Neruda''s masterpiece, Canto General is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. Although some parts of the poem have been translated, this is the first time it has appeared in its entirety in English. "A consistent, readable version . . . a major achievement".--Don Bogen, The Nation.

Neruda''s Spanish text is presented with in face translations in this comprehensive collection of his works.

The beloved Waldeen translation, first published in the USA by Masses & Mainstream (1950). Introduction by Christopher Perriam.

This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the strands of his great, seamless life''s work.

Against the backdrop of Isla Negra — the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific — Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda sets these joyfully sensual poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love: Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, the poet''s "beloved wife." As popular in the Hispanic world as the poet''s renowned Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair,One Hundred Love Sonnets has never before been published in its entirety in English translation. The reason for this astonishing neglect may lie in the historical circumstances that surrounded Neruda''s "discovery " by English-speaking readers. In the United States he came to popularity during the turmoil of the sixties, when Americans needed a politically committed poet, and much of Neruda''s canon answered that need. But, in his native Chile and throughout Latin America, Neruda has always been cherished as dearly for the earthly sensuality and eroticism of his love poetry as for his statements of political belief. To know this work, then is to understand the poet''s art more thoroughly.

Forty-three poltical poems cover the situations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Chile

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.