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Title: Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda, Ferris Cook, Ken Krabbenhoft ISBN: 0-8212-2080-2 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Common Things Turned Uncommonly Beautiful
Comment: The Odes to Common Things was written toward the end of Neruda's life, in a voice steeped in the wisdom of a life experienced in the greatest joys and horrors of the 20th century. When Neruda writes about a table, a chair, flowers, socks, or soap, these common things become more than everyday banal objects: they are transformed and elevated into metaphors, vehicles for the greater questions that haunt our lives, capturing the often overlooked beauty of everyday life, of the little things that we seem to remember only in our twilight.
Ken Krabbenhoft's translation is good, but often, as with other translations, it fails to capture the true spirit of the Spanish words (but not at his fault). It is for this reason I gave it four instead of five stars.
My personal favorites include: "Oda al Pan" (Ode to Bread); "Oda a la Cama" (Ode to the Bed); and, "Oda al Violin de California" (Ode to a Violin in California), perhaps because Neruda's inspiration may have come from walking the same shores that I too walk in barefoot pleasure.
--ross saciuk
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely
Comment: Having only read one of the Odes...I was compelled to give my feedback. Poetry and Neruda's greatness aside, this book is beautiful. Beautifully bound and lovely illustrations. I'm thrilled I'm giving this as a gift!
Rating: 5
Summary: Whatever Happened to Great Poetry?
Comment: Pablo Neruda--the last great poet. Every time I pick up one of his books I'm startled back in to coherence. "Odes to Common Things" is no exception. His elevation of what you and I take for granted to entities of self-completeness is nothing short of brilliance. When I see a chair all I see is a place to plant my weary body, but with Neruda the chair is transformed into something wildly exotic, transcendent and magical. "Ode to the dictionary" will make you regret not using yours more. A tell-tale sign of reading profound poetry is an encroaching sense of self-disgust. I rarely fail to acheive this feeling when reading Neruda. So if you're in the mood to be simutaneously elevated and degraded, read "Ode to Common Things", a book that is anything but common.
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Title: Odes to Opposites: Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda ISBN: 0821222279 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: 100 Love Sonnets : Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott ISBN: 0292760280 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $11.65 |
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Title: Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edición bilingüe) by Pablo Neruda, Anthony Kerrigan ISBN: 0395544181 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 10 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, William O'Daly ISBN: 1556591608 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Love : Ten Poems By Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda ISBN: 0786881488 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 16 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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