Isla Negra: A Notebook / A Bilingual Edition

by Pablo Neruda

Book Overview

Reflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, presented here with the English translations and original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.

In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had left behind him in the huge span of his writing existence. Written in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374517347
• ISBN13: 9780374517342
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

review on neruder at isla negra

one of my favorite of the five translations. Descriptive and imaginative you can truly enjoy the peoms through the translations.

brilliant

there are not enough words for this book. enticing and mesmerizing, Neruda remains to me one of the greatest lovers of life. An acute observer of surroundings, a revolutionary, a lover, a man of the world and of the senses. this book is a whirlwind of poetical autobiographical moments and what a wonder it is. recommended to be read quietly and in an atmosphere undisturbed.a masterpiece.

Great stuff. Why is it not available?

I just purchased this book of poetry. Wonderful stuff! Exquisite translation. Why is it no longer available? I keep this in the same place as my collection of Elliot poems. But these are warmer, deeply personal reflections of a life. It is like walking through a man's memories while he tells you what each one meant to him.