The Heights of Macchu Picchu - by Pablo Neruda (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in 1966 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd."--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Pablo Neruda's most famous long poem, with the English translations and original Spanish presented side by side.</b><br><i><br>The Heights of Macchu Picchu</i> is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symbolic qualities of a personal venture into the interior as the poem progresses, exploring both the roots of the poet's identity and the history of Latin America. <p/>This translation has been rendered by the distinguished poet Nathaniel Tarn and is presented in a bilingual edition, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[Neruda's] artistic work stands as a monument to a soul in perpetual motion." --<i>Galo Rene Perez</i> <p/>"Not since Whitman has a poet of genius embraced a whole continent, as Neruda has, or spoken so directly to non-poets among his readers." --<i>Selden Rodman</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Pablo Neruda</b> (1904-73), one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.</p>
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