“Poetry is like bread. It should be shared by
all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible,
extraordinary family of humanity."
- Pablo neruda
"The call for a more accessible collection of
Neruda's important poems is answered with City Lights' The Essential
Neruda, a 200-page edition that offers 50 of Neruda's key poems. 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."
– The Bloomsbury Review
– The Bloomsbury Review
"What better
way to celebrate the hundred years of Neruda's glorious
residence on our earth than this selection of crucial works
- in both languages! - by one of the greatest poets of all
time. 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."
– Ariel Dorfman, Pulitzer-prize winner author of "Death and the Maiden"
– Ariel Dorfman, Pulitzer-prize winner author of "Death and the Maiden"
" ...The Essential Neruda 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.
At only 234 pages (bilingual), it somehow manages to convey
the fullness of Neruda's poetic arc: Reading it is like
reading the autobiography of a poetic sensibility (granted,
the abridged version)."
– The Austin Chronicle
– The Austin Chronicle
