Essential Neruda

<p><strong>This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems is indispensable.</strong></p><p>Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S. this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes.</p><p>An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid Stephen Mitchell Robert Hass Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of previously untranslated works are included as well.</p><p>This selection sets the standard for a general high-quality introduction to Neruda's complete oeuvre.</p><p>...<em>The Essential Neruda</em> will prove to be for most readers the best introduction to Neruda available in English. In fact I can think of few other books that have given me so much delight so easily. --<em><em><strong>The Austin Chronicle</strong></em></em></p><p>This book is a must-have for any reader interested in a definitive sampling of the most essential poems by one whom many consider one of the best poets of the 20th century.--<strong>Mike Nobles <em>Tulsa World</em></strong></p><p>A splendid way to begin a love affair with our Pablo or having already succumbed to his infinite charms revisit him passionately again and again and yet again.--<strong>Ariel Dorfman author of <em>Death and the Maiden</em></strong></p><p>The editors and translators know how to extract gold from a lifetime of prolific writing. If you want a handy Neruda companion and don't know where to begin this is it.--<em><strong><em>The Bloomsbury Review</em></strong></em></p>