The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Tarn, Nathaniel
Neruda, Pablo
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symb
BOOK SYNOPSIS
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symbolic qualities of a personal "venture into the interior" as the poem progresses, exploring both the roots of the poet's identity and the history of Latin America. This translation has been rendered by the distinquished poet Nathaniel Tarn and is presented in a bilingual edition, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages.
AUTHOR BIO
Pablo Neruda (1904-73), one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
BOOK REVIEWS
"[Neruda's] artistic work stands as a monument to a soul in perpetual motion." --Galo Rene Perez
"Not since Whitman has a poet of genius embraced a whole continent, as Neruda has, or spoken so directly to non-poets among his readers." --Selden Rodman
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374506485
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374506483
Copyright: 1999
Dewey Decimal: 861/.62
Library of Congress: 2005279379
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.3
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