Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture) [Paperback]

Pablo Neruda (Author), Margaret Sayers Peden (Introduction)

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Publication Date: September 4, 2000 | Series: Latin American Literature and Culture

The atom, a tuna, laziness, love--the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas odas elementales and Tercer libro de las odas. Margaret Sayers Peden's selection of odes from all three volumes, printed with the Spanish originals on facing pages, is by far the most extensive yet to appear in English. She vividly conveys the poet's vision of the realities of day-to-day life in her trans-lations, while her brief introduction describes the genesis of the poems.

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The House Of Odes
The Invisible Man
Ode To An Abandoned House
Ode To A Black Pantheress
Ode To A Boy With A Hare
Ode To A Chestnut On The Ground
Ode To A Couple
Ode To A Dead Carob Tree
Ode To A Laboratory Technician
Ode To A Large Tuna %in The Market
Ode To A Mirabilis Jalapa: %the Night-blooming Four O'clock
Ode To A Rooster
Ode To A Saffron Finch
Ode To A Ship In A Bottle
Ode To A Sleeping House
Ode To A Stamp Album
Ode To A Village Movie Theater
Ode To A Watch In The Night
Ode To A Woman Gardening
Ode To Age
Ode To An Aged Poet
Ode To An Artichoke
Ode To An Offended Picaro
Ode To Bees
Ode To Bicycles
Ode To Bird-watching
Ode To Conger Chowder
Ode To Criticism
Ode To Criticism (ii)
Ode To Firefoot
Ode To Laziness
Ode To Light On The Sea
Ode To Maize
Ode To My Socks
Ode To My Suit
Ode To Numbers
Ode To Sadness
Ode To Salt
Ode To Seaweeds
Ode To Summer
Ode To The Americas
Ode To The Atom
Ode To The Birds Of Chile
Ode To The Birth Of A Fawn
Ode To The Book (ii)
Ode To The Cranium
Ode To The Dictionary
Ode To The Earth
Ode To The Gentle Bricklayer
Ode To The Hummingbird
Ode To The Lemon
Ode To The Lizard
Ode To The Moon Of The Sea
Ode To The Past
Ode To The Sea Gull
Ode To The Southern Cross
Ode To The Storms Of Cordoba
Ode To The Third Day
Ode To The Thread
Ode To The Voyager Albatros
Ode To Time
Ode To Tomatoes
Ode To Two Autumns
Ode To Valparaiso
Ode To Wine
Ode To Wood
Odes For Everyone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 388 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (September 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520227085
• ISBN-13: 978-0520227088
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,161,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, his breadth of vision and wide range of themes are extraordinary, and his work continues to inspire new generations of writers.

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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can only afford to buy one Neruda book,, January 6, 1998

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This review is from: Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture) (Paperback)

this one is a good choice. I particularly like his ode to my suit.