One of the most celebrated and admired books of love poetry published in the last hundred years, by the Chilean Nobel Prize winner, Pablo Neruda.
Pablo Neruda (Author)
Born Neftal-Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in southern Chile in 1904, Pablo
Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. His
first book, Crepusculario ('Twilight') was published in 1923. The
following year, he published Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion
desesperada ('Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'), which
turned him into a celebrity.
In 1927 he began his long career as a diplomat, serving as Chilean
consul in numerous places including Burma, Buenos Aires, Madrid,
Mexico and France. He was elected to the Chilean Senate in 1943 but
later expelled for being a Communist. In 1952 the government
withdrew the order to arrest leftist writers and political figures,
and Neruda returned to Chile. For the next twenty-one years, he
continued a career that integrated private and public concerns and
became known as the people's poet.
During this time, Neruda received numerous prestigious awards,
including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace
Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1971. He died of leukaemia in Santiago, Chile in
1973.
Leo Boix (Introducer)
Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born
in Argentina who lives in the UK. He is a recent fellow of The
Complete Works, a national mentoring programme aimed at poets from
minority backgrounds, which included poets such as Kayo Chingonyi,
Sarah Howe and Warsan Shire, among others. His poems have been
included in many anthologies, such as Ten- Poets of the New
Generation (Bloodaxe), The Best New British and Irish Poets
Anthology 2019-2021 (Eyewear Publishing) and Un Nuevo Sol- British
Latinx Writers (flipped eye), and have appeared in POETRY, PN
Review, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Boix is
co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council England national
scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is a board
member of Magma Poetry, co-editor of its Resistencia issue
showcasing the best Latinx writing, and an advisory board member of
the Poetry Translation Centre in London. He was the recipient of
the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018 and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019.
One of the greatest love poets of all time
*Observer*
His love poems have fuelled romances around the world
*Independent*
The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked
flowers
*Daily Telegraph*
The greatest poet of the 20th century
*Gabriel García Márquez*
He was that rare thing - a public poet, and a great one, held in
deep affection by every layer of Chilean society. For the skill
that earned him such esteem was his ability to find beauty in
ordinary things
*Guardian*
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