The Yellow Heart (A Kagean Book) (Spanish Edition)
Here is still another posthumous work by Neruda, the fifth published by Copper Canyon in a bilingual edition. Written just before Neruda's death from cancer in 1973, these poems present the usual themes and symbolisms yet have a lighter feel to them, as if the poet were tossing off as a joke the solemn end to a grand life, knowing full well, too, that Chile was about to be engulfed in a military coup backed by the United States. Nevertheless, the great Neruda is still in evidence: "Nobody knows what it is to swallow/the dust of defeat . . . and I alone was left, fenced in/ by fifty rabid kings." These few lines testify to the grandeur of Neruda's poetry at its best, as well as to his humanity. The passionate Latino poet comes through well in O'Daly's translation. Along with Vallejo and Lorca, Neruda's place in 20th-century poetry is well deserved. Essential.- Ivan Arguelles, Univ. of California at Berkeley Lib.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.