Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda - Hardcover

Neruda, Pablo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556594941 ISBN 13: 9781556594946

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 2016

Synopsis

Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered."

"A literary event of universal importance."--The Guardian

"The earliest poem in the collection dates to 1956, and several are love poems, a form Neruda was famous for."--The New York Times

"This new volume will be a labor of love for the publisher and a joy for readers everywhere."--Library Journal

"This brief visit with Neruda ends all too soon, yet reminds one why his work still matters."--The Washington Post

Pablo Neruda's lost poems--recently discovered in his archive to the delight of readers and scholars--comprise this remarkable and essential volume.

Originally composed on napkins, playbills, receipts, and notebooks, Neruda's lost poems are full of eros and heartache, complex wordplay and deep wonder. Presented with the Spanish text, full-color reproductions of handwritten poems, and dynamic English translations, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda simultaneously completes and advances the oeuvre of the world's most beloved poet.

Crossing the sky I near
the red ray of your hair.
Of earth and wheat I am and as I close-in
your fire kindles itself
inside me and the rocks
and flour ignite.
That's why my heart
expands and rises
into bread for your mouth to devour,
and my blood is wine poured for you.
You and I are the land with its fruit.
Bread, fire, blood and wine
make up the earthly love that sears us.

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) is one of the world's most beloved and best-selling poets. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

Translator Forrest Gander teaches at Brown University and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Review:

One of the poetry events of the year... was surely the publication of Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems, translated by the leading American poet Forrest Gander and handsomely presented with bilingual text and holographs. Discovered in 2014 and issued in the US last year, these are emphatically not literary leftovers, and they give us Pablo Neruda at his full emotional and imaginative stretch. --Fiona Sampson, New Statesman (Books of the Year)

The breadth of his work is just outstanding... These new poems allow for the rediscovery of Neruda by a new generation... they are really quite delightful. --Maria Delgado, reviewing Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking

Each one of the poems is marked by Neruda's rich and easy eloquence, philosophical, warm and conversational. --Andy Croft, Morning Star [on the 21 previously unpublished poems in Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems]

About the Author:

Pablo Neruda: Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, in 1904. He served as consul in Burma and held diplomatic posts in various East Asian and European countries. In 1945, a few years after he joined the Communist Party, Neruda was elected to the Chilean Senate. Shortly thereafter, when Chile's political climate took a sudden turn to the right, Neruda fled to Mexico, and lived as an exile for several years. He later established a permanent home at Isla Negra. In 1970 he was appointed as Chile's ambassador to France, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Pablo Neruda died in 1973.
Forrest Gander: Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His many honors include the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship; his books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1556594941
• ISBN 13: 9781556594946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160