Twenty Love Poems
And A Song Of Despair
$21.49
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2004
Summary
One of the most celebrated and admired books of love poetry published in the last hundred years, by the Chilean Nobel Prize winner, Pablo Neruda.
The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen, and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice. His third book, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada - Tw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224074414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224074415 |
| Author: | Pablo Neruda |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 5mm |
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The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers
“One of the greatest love poets of all time” – Christopher Hitchins Observer “He has the mingled richness and discipline of a string quartet” – Adam Feinstein Guardian “The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers” – Carol Ann Duffy Daily Telegraph
About The Author
Pablo Neruda
Born Neftal-Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in southern Chile in 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. His first book, Crepusculario (Twilight) was published in 1923. The following year, he published Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), which turned him into a celebrity. In 1927 he began his long career as a diplomat, serving as Chilean consul in numerous places including Burma, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico and France. He was elected to the Chilean Senate in 1943 but later expelled for being a Communist. In 1952 the government withdrew the order to arrest leftist writers and political figures, and Neruda returned to Chile. For the next twenty-one years, he continued a career that integrated private and public concerns and became known as the people’s poet. During this time, Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile in 1973.
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