{"product_id":"veinte-poemas-de-amor-y-una-cancin-desesperada-isbn-9780143039969","title":"Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film \u003ci\u003eNeruda \u003c\/i\u003estarring Gael García Bernal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeftali Ricardo Reyes\u003c\/b\u003e, whose pseudonym was to be \u003cb\u003ePablo Neruda,\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Parral, Chile, in 1904. He grew up in the pioneer town of Temuco, briefly encountering Gabriela Mistral, who taught there for a time. In 1920 he went to Santiago to study, and the following year published his first collection of poetry,\u003ci\u003eLa Cancion de la Fiesta\u003c\/i\u003e. A second collection, \u003ci\u003eCrepusculario\u003c\/i\u003e, brought him critical recognition; and in 1924 the hugely successful \u003ci\u003eVeinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada\u003c\/i\u003e appeared. From 1927 to 1943, Neruda lived abroad, serving as a diplomat in Rangoon, Colombo, Batavia, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and Mexico City. This is the period that saw the publication of the first two volumes of his celebrated \u003ci\u003eResidencia en la Tierra\u003c\/i\u003e. He joined the Communist Party of Chile after World War II, was prosecuted as a subversive, and began an exile that took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China. Already the most renowned Latin American poet of his time, he returned to Chile in 1952. He died there in 1973, having just seen the fourth edition of his \u003ci\u003eObras Completas\u003c\/i\u003e through the press. In receiving the Nobel Prize in 1971, he had said that the poet must achieve a balance “between solitude and solidarity, between feeling and action, between the intimacy of one's self, the intimacy of mankind, and the relevation of nature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e (translator; 1927–2019) published many highly regarded books of poems, for which he received a number of distinguished awards—the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, a Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii among them. The U.S. poet laureate from 2010 to 2011, he translated widely from many languages, and his versions of classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Poem of the Cid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Roland\u003c\/i\u003e are standards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina García\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Morning is Full\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe morning is full of storm\u003cbr\u003ein the heart of summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye, \u003cbr\u003ethe wind, traveling, waving them in its hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe numberless heart of the wind\u003cbr\u003ebeating above our loving silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrchestral and divine, resounding among the trees\u003cbr\u003elike a language full of wars and songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWind that bears off the dead leaves with a quick raid \u003cbr\u003eand deflects the pulsing arrows of the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWind that topples her in a wave without spray \u003cbr\u003eand substance without weight, and leaning fires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mass of kisses breaks and sinks, \u003cbr\u003eassailed in the door of the summer's wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEs La Mañana Llena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEs la mañana lleno de tempestad\u003cbr\u003een el corazón del verano.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComo pañuelos blancos de adiós las nubes, \u003cbr\u003eel viento las sacude con sus viajeras manos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnumerable el corazón del viento \u003cbr\u003elatiendo sobre nuestro silencio enamorado.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZumbando entre los árboles, orquestal y divino, \u003cbr\u003ecomo una lengua llena de guerras y de cantos.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViento que lleva rápido robo la hojarasca \u003cbr\u003ey desvia las flechas latientes de los parajos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViento que le derriba en ola sin espuma\u003cbr\u003ey sustancia sin peso, y fuegos inclinados.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSe rompe y se submerge su volumen de besos\u003cbr\u003ecombatido en la puerta del viento del verano.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303158501605,"sku":"NP9780143039969","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039969.jpg?v=1767743394","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/veinte-poemas-de-amor-y-una-cancin-desesperada-isbn-9780143039969","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}