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# 4.7/5 rating from nearly 1,000 readers Top 10 in Latin American & Spanish poetry charts Bilingual edition for dual-language mastery The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)

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> 📖 Unlock the soul of Neruda—bilingual brilliance that speaks to your heart and intellect.

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## Key Features

- • **Award-Winning Bestseller:** Ranked top 10 in Caribbean & Latin American poetry, this collection is a must-have for literary trendsetters.
- • **Dive into Dual Languages:** Experience Neruda’s poetry in both Spanish and English, perfect for bilingual professionals and cultural connoisseurs.
- • **A Rich Tapestry of Themes:** From passionate love to social justice, explore the full spectrum of Neruda’s poetic genius in one essential volume.
- • **Critically Acclaimed Translations:** Mark Eisner’s fresh, authentic translations bring new life to Neruda’s timeless verses, making every poem a vivid journey.
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## Overview

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) offers expertly translated, dual-language access to Pablo Neruda’s most celebrated works. With a 4.7-star rating from nearly 1,000 readers and top rankings in Latin American and Spanish poetry categories, this used book in good condition is a prized collection for anyone seeking to deepen their literary and cultural fluency.

## Description

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) [Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner, Robert Hass, Stephen Mitchell, Alastair Reid, Forrest Gander, Stephen Kessler, John Felstiner, Jack Hirschman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)

Review: A New Translation - "I became saturated with his poetry and began to translate his poems. Although there were many beautiful existing translations, many others did not flow as I felt they should and I often had interpretive differences with them." ~ Mark Eisner, translator "The Essential Neruda Selected Poems" is the best translation I've read so far. The words are alive with beauty in a way that feels authentic to the heart. You can immerse yourself in the poems and emerge with a sense of wonder. "Leaning into the evenings I throw my sad nets to your ocean eyes." Mark Eisner has captured the soul of Pablo Neruda's art and perhaps even enhanced the creative majesty of each poem. At times the poems can make you feel a little breathless as if you have happened upon a new discovery or secret revelation. "And the air came in with orange-blossom fingers over all those asleep: a thousand years of air, months, weeks of air, of blue wind, of iron cordillera, that were like soft hurricanes of footsteps polishing the lonely boundary of the stone." The imagery is at times so vivid, as if you were transported to each scene. Pictures flash across your mind and you can almost catch the scent of the ocean or see the colors vivid and pure. Angels and death dance through the poems with equal ease and at times the words are heavenly or earthy and dark. "Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure clarity opens between your columns? What ancient night does man touch with his senses?" If you are new to the poems of Pablo Neruda then this would be an excellent place to start. The poems present many facets of the poet unlike other books that simply reveal his romantic nature. While I seem to enjoy his love poems best, I can say that this experience gives a more wide-ranging portrait of Pablo Neruda. ~The Rebecca Review
Review: It's a beautiful collection of Neruda's poetry. That's all you really need to know. - A beautiful and broad collection of his poems, from love to workers' rights.... "On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity." Pablo Neruda I Like You When You're Quiet I like it when you're quiet. It's as if you weren't here now, and you heard me from a distance, and my voice couldn't reach you. It's as if your eyes had flown away from you, and as if your mouth were closed because I leaned to kiss you. Just as all living things are filled with my soul, you emerge from all living things filled with the soul of me. It's as if, a butterfly in dreams, you were my soul, and as if you were the soul's word, melancholy. RH (7) The title of "Essential Neruda" is apt in this collection not just for the beautiful and passionate love poetry that draws us initially to Neruda's works, but the love expanded into all of one's fellow men, especially the poor and working classes, and even those imprisoned. I wish that more poets took up the "Poet's Obligation". To whomever is not listening to the sea this Friday morning, to whomever is cooped up in house or office, factory or woman or street or mine or harsh prison cell: to him I come, and, without speaking or looking, I arrive and open the door of his prison, and a vibration starts up, vague and insistent, a great fragment of thunder sets in motion the rumble of the planet and the foam, the raucous rivers of the ocean flood, the star vibrates swiftly in its corona, and the sea is beating, dying and continuing. AR 145 I have used the translation of "United Fruit" in my classes, and I think that one cannot teach the essence of Neruda without works like these. It is a work you will read and revisit again and again.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #38,646 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in Caribbean & Latin American Poetry (Books) #9 in Spanish Poetry (Books) #78 in Love Poems |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 992 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A New Translation
*by T***W on November 3, 2007*

"I became saturated with his poetry and began to translate his poems. Although there were many beautiful existing translations, many others did not flow as I felt they should and I often had interpretive differences with them." ~ Mark Eisner, translator "The Essential Neruda Selected Poems" is the best translation I've read so far. The words are alive with beauty in a way that feels authentic to the heart. You can immerse yourself in the poems and emerge with a sense of wonder. "Leaning into the evenings I throw my sad nets to your ocean eyes." Mark Eisner has captured the soul of Pablo Neruda's art and perhaps even enhanced the creative majesty of each poem. At times the poems can make you feel a little breathless as if you have happened upon a new discovery or secret revelation. "And the air came in with orange-blossom fingers over all those asleep: a thousand years of air, months, weeks of air, of blue wind, of iron cordillera, that were like soft hurricanes of footsteps polishing the lonely boundary of the stone." The imagery is at times so vivid, as if you were transported to each scene. Pictures flash across your mind and you can almost catch the scent of the ocean or see the colors vivid and pure. Angels and death dance through the poems with equal ease and at times the words are heavenly or earthy and dark. "Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure clarity opens between your columns? What ancient night does man touch with his senses?" If you are new to the poems of Pablo Neruda then this would be an excellent place to start. The poems present many facets of the poet unlike other books that simply reveal his romantic nature. While I seem to enjoy his love poems best, I can say that this experience gives a more wide-ranging portrait of Pablo Neruda. ~The Rebecca Review

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a beautiful collection of Neruda's poetry. That's all you really need to know.
*by M***H on February 9, 2015*

A beautiful and broad collection of his poems, from love to workers' rights.... "On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity." Pablo Neruda I Like You When You're Quiet I like it when you're quiet. It's as if you weren't here now, and you heard me from a distance, and my voice couldn't reach you. It's as if your eyes had flown away from you, and as if your mouth were closed because I leaned to kiss you. Just as all living things are filled with my soul, you emerge from all living things filled with the soul of me. It's as if, a butterfly in dreams, you were my soul, and as if you were the soul's word, melancholy. RH (7) The title of "Essential Neruda" is apt in this collection not just for the beautiful and passionate love poetry that draws us initially to Neruda's works, but the love expanded into all of one's fellow men, especially the poor and working classes, and even those imprisoned. I wish that more poets took up the "Poet's Obligation". To whomever is not listening to the sea this Friday morning, to whomever is cooped up in house or office, factory or woman or street or mine or harsh prison cell: to him I come, and, without speaking or looking, I arrive and open the door of his prison, and a vibration starts up, vague and insistent, a great fragment of thunder sets in motion the rumble of the planet and the foam, the raucous rivers of the ocean flood, the star vibrates swiftly in its corona, and the sea is beating, dying and continuing. AR 145 I have used the translation of "United Fruit" in my classes, and I think that one cannot teach the essence of Neruda without works like these. It is a work you will read and revisit again and again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Translation is Helping me Learn Spanish
*by J***Y on June 2, 2025*

There’s a reason why Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was so beloved in his home country. His poems are sweet and funny and approachable and memorable. This Spanish/English translation with the 2 versions printed on opposite pages is really helping me in my journey to become more fluent in Spanish.

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