nOW oN sALE THREE TITLES BY PABLO NERUDA Translated by Ben Belitt _____________________________________________________ The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. These books makes available most of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by “his most enduring translator, the poet Ben Belitt” _____________________________________________________ FIVE DECADES: Poems, 1925-1970 Pablo Neruda Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802130358 Price: Rs. 750.00 This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned, and ferociously intelligent as he was sensual. Ben Belitt has drawn the 138 selections in Five Decades from all of Nerudas major works, including the early volumes Residence on Earth, General Song, Elemental Odes, Voyages and Homecomings, Book of Vagaries, A Hundred Love Sonnets, Black Island Memorial, and the later The Hands of Day, Worlds End, and Skystones. LATE AND POSTHUMOUS POEMS: 1968-1974 Pablo Neruda Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802131454 Price: Rs. 899.00 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highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973.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 lifes work. SELECTED POEMS Pablo Neruda Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802151025 Price: Rs. 799.00 Records the selected works of a leading Latin American poet, presenting the verses in both English and Spanish to emphasize his political and social themes. _____________________________________________________ Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Ferral, Chile on July 12, 1904. In 1923 he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario (Twilight), which he published under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda. Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), which was published the following year, made him a celebrity and allowed him to stop his studies to devote himself to poetry. His other works include España en el Corazón, Canto General, Las Uvas y el Viento, and Para Nacer He Nacido. He received numerous awards including the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature for his poetry in 1971. He died of leukemia on September 23, 1973. _____________________________________________________
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