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 - exceptional and passionate neruda!!I lost sleep last night to devour its last page...I love a night like last night where a book keeps me awake like a lover. This collection is the juice of a cool of mango on a scathing summer day, I tasted radience in the words!! I immediately got more to give as presents to friends in love. This collection is a falling in love with life and shouldn't be missed! Rating:  - A good translationI started to read this book with skepticism, because I think that it is impossible to translate Neruda in his exact sense. However, I had a very good impression of the book, and I think that the author did a great effort understanding Neruda's poems. Obviously, if you really want to know Neruda, you need to read his work in Spanish, but still it is a good approach to introduce you in his poetry. Rating: - PureIt's difficult to read Neruda and remain intact. "Of all that I was, I bear only these cruel scars, because those griefs confirm my very existence." Rating: - More than just a great intro-awesome even if you already have some PabloI got The Essential Neruda when it came out in 2004. I already loved Neruda, and have the old Selected Poems edition (which unfortunately ends at 1968, and some of the translations are just plain flat) plus the 20 Love Poems, Residence on Earth, Canto General, and some of the odes. But the translators here (former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass just won the Pulitzer!) just bring Neruda so alive, and the selection of poems just captures his whole range of 'the many Pablos'. So when I came here today to buy one as a gift, I'm pleased by the reviews of how great an introduction to Neruda it is, but I want to stress how great it is as a book to keep going back to again and again. Actually, to quote the great writer Ariel Dorfman on the back cover of the book: "What beter way to celebrate the hundred years of Neruda's glorious residence on our earth than this selection of crucial works - in both languages! A splendid way to being a love affair with out Pablo or, having already succumbed to his infinite charms, revisit him passionately again and again and yet again." Rating: - A wonderful place to start with NerudaGorgeous work. Neruda is my all time favorite. A beautiful book to give as a gift or to get some started with Neruda. In association with Amazon.com | |