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Title: Residence on Earth/Residencia en la Tierra by Pablo Neruda ISBN: 0-8112-0467-7 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Best surrealist poetry ever written in Spanish. Period.
Moreover...the third part where Neruda turns to his more political poetry is a good preview of what he will expand later in "canto General".
what else can be said about Neruda. He is a genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: well, I would IMAGINE 5 stars
Comment: I read a lot of Extravagaria and understood it fairly well - especially the english version. The last third of Extravagaria was difficult for me because of topical issues and politics and what Santiago was like and what not. Residence on Earth follows that formula for ME at least - it gets harder and harder. This isn't to say it isn't enjoyable, but many poems require, or even demand, many, many rereadings. Almost like reading Balzac, I have to trudge through a lot of boring, or in this case, incomprehensible references the antecedents of which feed the basic satisfaction of getting to understanding the meaning. I suppose what I am getting at is that one cannot - and I suspect this is universal - apprehend the gorgeous phrases that at some points REALLY STAND OUT without, unfortunately, knowing the stakes of the poem, these stakes being set in another country, and written by someone who may have been too prolific (though I guess that was his personality, and without that, ya ya ). This may sound obvious to the point of banality, but really: Potential buyer, not everyone is fully, or even halfly, versed in Chile, the politics of south america, etc., so it follows that for those who aren't, there is going to be some intellectual grasping in some of the poems. And Neruda is so popular and this is his most profound book so any poetry lover might jump at this anthology. Maybe too much grasping is required in reading these poems without a historical background. Or you can do like me, and just make up a polemical event when the poem calls for one, much like the way I make up the way many trees look like in 18th century novels. I suppose I would have to read a biography on Neruda and take a class on the history of south america in order to go to the next level of uh, "poetry cogntion" (forgive me). Still, and despite all these petty and looking up, lazy complaints, I love most of the poems even reading blindly. I also pretentiously suspect that the translation is quite good; very uncommon english words are found throughout the book and this may indicate the translator's respect for Neruda insofar as his not trying to artificially streamline things by giving us our english synonyms; My basic impression is that the translator thinks that if we want to read a book such as this we should - "well, jeepers, this book precisely contains some of the most profound poetry of the 20th century" - go ahead and learn spanish. Anyway, a very good book especially if one enjoys rerereading poetry. As far as the comparison with Walt whitman, I guess one would really need to know the original language quite well indeed. Though concerning the actual content of the poetry, I suppose I can see why both poets could be mentioned in the same paragraph, maybe in the same way as Hitchock could be with Nabakov. But for my money, Neruda and Whitman seem pretty dissimilar too. (Though I did see a picture of Whitman among Neruda's favorite poets in his house) It would be interesting to read where the similarities are.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent collection of candid poems of emotion.
Comment: Neruda delivers an uninhibited glimse at human emotions and panges of life in this collection of poems. Neruda jars the soul by explaining in simple verse, how tragic life can be. The reflections and odes collected in this work are a superb display of the skill Neruda has. Residence on Earth is a compilation of poetry from a mature poet who willfully takes risks, and carries through with beautiful prose. Nerudas candid emotional stylizations convince one of the feeling of being consumed by the poetry itself. Neruda is boundless in structure. The easy style allow for the reader to atempt to understand the abundant imagery and symbolism contained traditionally within Nerudas works. One must read this compilation, as one would consume a fine port wine, or richly decadent chocolate-with trepidation. Time to reflect and savor the splendor of this poet is most definately required.
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Title: Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh ISBN: 081120457X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Memoirs by Hardie St. Martin, Pablo Neruda ISBN: 0374527539 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Despair (Twentieth Century Classics) by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin ISBN: 0140186484 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Canto General, 50th Anniversary Edition (Latin American Literature and Culture) by Pablo Neruda, Jack Schmitt, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria ISBN: 0520227093 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman ISBN: 0140587217 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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