Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

出版者:Chronicle Books

页数:79

译者:W.S. Merwin

出版时间:1993

价格:USD 2.62

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780811803205

作者简介

From Publishers Weekly

This collection of poems, first published by Neruda at the age of 19 in 1924, caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality: "I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire. / My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide. / In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst." It later became one of Neruda's best-loved works, selling two million copies by the 1960s. Why? With image after arresting image, Neruda charts the oceanic movements of passion, repeatedly summoning imagery of the sea and weather: "On all sides I see your waist of fog, / and your silence hunts down my afflicted hours; / my kisses anchor, and my moist desire nests / in you with your arms of transparent stone." As irresistible as the sea, love is engulfing ("You swallowed everything, like distance. / . . . In you everything sank!"), but also departs as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving the poet's heart a "pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked." These unabashedly romantic poems, wonderfully translated by Merwin, are illustrated in this edition by the paintings of Jan Thompson Dicks with aptly Fauvist tones and iconic formality.

Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Verse collection by Pablo Neruda, published in 1924 as Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada. The book immediately established the author's reputation and became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish. The 20 love poems of the title poignantly describe remembered affairs with two women: a girl from the poet's native town of Temuco and a classmate at the University of Santiago. The collection begins with intensity, describing sensual passion that slackens into melancholy and detachment in the later verses. The closing poem, "A Song of Despair," hopelessly dwells upon bitter emotions. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Product Description

A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago, this collection is now offered for the first time in a beautiful gift edition. This superb translation and richly colored illustrations bring the poems of this classic volume vividly to life. Full color.

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

Original Language: Spanish

About the Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), was a Nobel Prize-winner, one of his country's most important statesmen and the most influential, prolific Spanish language poet of his generation.

Jan Thompson Dicks is the illustrator of The House That Crack Built, published by Chronicle Books in 1992 to extraordinary critical acclaim. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

目录信息

I. Body of a Woman p. 3
II. The Light Wraps You p. 5
III. Ah Vastness of Pines p. 9
IV. The Morning Is Full p. 11
V. So that You Will Hear Me p. 15
VI. I Remember You As You Were p. 21
VII. Leaning into the Afternoons p. 23
VIII. White Bee p. 27
IX. Drunk with Pines p. 33
X. We Have Lost Even p. 35
XI. Almost out of the Sky p. 39
XII. Your Breast Is Enough p. 43
XIII. I Have Gone Marking p. 47
XIV. Every Day You Play p. 53
XV. I Like for You to Be Still p. 57
XVI. In My at Twilight p. 61
XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows p. 65
XVIII. Here I Love You p. 71
XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny p. 75
XX. Tonight I Can Write p. 77
The Song of Despair p. 83
Selected Bibliography p. 91
Suggestions for Further Reading
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无法形容的微妙感。。

也译得不好。没啥感触

无法形容的微妙感。。

也译得不好。没啥感触

无法形容的微妙感。。