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The Captain´s Verses: Love Poems
Pablo Neruda
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Description for The Captain´s Verses: Love Poems
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world—passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.
Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world—passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.
Product Details
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218214
SKU
V9780811218214
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99-15
About Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile. He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile.
Reviews for The Captain´s Verses: Love Poems
"The greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language."
Gabriel Garcia Márquez "'I know that one day we will go back to Isla Negra, that Pablo's people will enter through that door and will find in every stone, in every leaf, in every seagull's cry, the always-living poetry of that man who loved them so much."
Julio Cortazar ... Read more
Gabriel Garcia Márquez "'I know that one day we will go back to Isla Negra, that Pablo's people will enter through that door and will find in every stone, in every leaf, in every seagull's cry, the always-living poetry of that man who loved them so much."
Julio Cortazar ... Read more