{"product_id":"five-decades-poems-1925-1970-paperback","title":"Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePablo Neruda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBen Belitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBen Belitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most prolific, influential and inventive poet of the Spanish language.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner, \"our great Latin-American Whitmanesque father\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. \"Neruda's poetry inevitably calls forth Wagnerian language from overwhelmed observers--force of nature, \"avalanche,\" \"volcano' . . . [He] led an epic life as a revolutionary prophet and . . . national hero in Chile\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Belitt has drawn the 138 selections in Five Decades from all of Neruda's major works, including the early volumes \u003ci\u003eResidence on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeneral Song\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElemental Odes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVoyages and Homecomings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBook of Vagaries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Love Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Island Memorial\u003c\/i\u003e, and the later \u003ci\u003eThe Hands of Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld's End\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSkystones\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePablo Neruda\u003c\/b\u003e, the nom de plume of Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born in Chile, in 1904. His first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eCrepusculario\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1923 when he was nineteen years of age, but it was his second, \u003ci\u003eTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), that would ultimately earn him literary celebrity. Other notable works include: \u003ci\u003eSpain in My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), inspired by Neruda's experiences during the Spanish Civil War and by the death of his friend and fellow poet, Federico García Lorca; \u003ci\u003eResidence on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), a collection of obscure and surreal poems; and \u003ci\u003eCanto General\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), an expansive work, composed in exile about the socio-political history of Latin America from a Marxist ethos. Neruda was an active politician, as well a writer, and held administrative positions in Spain, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He was also forced into exile 1949 because of his politics, but returned to Chile in 1952. He was close to Salvador Allende and from 1970 to 1972 Neruda served as the Chilean ambassador to France. In 1971, Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature \"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams\". The Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, once called Pablo Neruda, \"the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.\" He died in 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.22 x 8.21 x 5.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911509799136,"sku":"9780802130358","price":21.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/vB4DrnVzd_9780802130358.webp?v=1781271498","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/five-decades-poems-1925-1970-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}