num_pages: 200
description: 
  This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alaistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems. A bilingual edition, with English on one side of the page, the original Spanish on the other. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda’s complete oeuvre.
  Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

language: English
title: The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Latin American Literature
ratings_count: 6131
publisher: City Lights Publishers