The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition

by Pablo Neruda, Nathaniel Tarn (Translator)

Overview

The Heights of Macchu Picchu 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. This translation has been rendered by the distinquished poet Nathaniel Tarn and is presented in a bilingual edition, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374506483
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	01/01/1967
Edition description:	Bilingual edition
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	1,047,411
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Pablo Neruda (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.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1904

Date of Death:

September 23, 1973

Place of Birth:

Parral, Chile

Place of Death:

Santiago, Chile

Education:

University of Chile, Santiago

Editorial Reviews

[Neruda's] artistic work stands as a monument to a soul in perpetual motion.” —Galo Rene Perez

“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.” —Selden Rodman

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