Pablo Neruda‘s early books made him famous enough in his native Chile that the government awarded him a series of diplomatic posts in Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, and Spain (just before the Spanish Civil War). Neruda wrote three books during this period under the collective title Residencia en la Tierra (A Stay on Earth). The selection presented here is taken from the first of these. Born in 1904, Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971. He died in 1973.
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Dead Gallop
From the Spanish. From Residencia en la Tierra (1925-31) Like ashes, like seas breeding into themselves, in the sunken slowness, in the formless, or the way one hears from high […]
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
The Widower’s Tango
From the Spanish. From Residencia en la Tierra (1925-31) Oh Maligna, now you've found the letter, now you've cried with rage, and you've insulted the memory of my mother, […]