Why a Booktrail?
1904 – 1973: The man of poems
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (Vintage Classics)
Why a Booktrail?
1904 – 1973: The man of poems
What you need to know before your trail
Selected Poems contains Neruda’s resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statements and a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive and celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet.
Travel Guide
BookTrail it to see Pablo Neruda’s Chile
Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. He became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, an autobiography, and passionate love poems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda’s arrest. Friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in Valparaíso; but later Neruda escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close advisor to Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (Vintage Classics)
Destination: Chile Author/guide: Pablo Neruda Departure Time: 1904 – 1973
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