{"product_id":"9781466894532","title":"The Poetry of Pablo Neruda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by  \"the greatest poet of the twentieth century-in any language\" (Gabriel  García Márquez)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his work a continent awakens to  consciousness,\" wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to  Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one  of Latin America's most revered writers and political figures-a loyal  member of the Communist party, a lifelong diplomat and onetime senator, a  man lionized during his lifetime as \"the people's poet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn  Neftali Basoalto, Neruda adopted his pen name in fear of his family's  disapproval, and yet by the age of twenty-five he was already famous for  the book\u003ci\u003e Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e, which remains  his most beloved. During the next fifty years, a seemingly boundless  metaphorical language linked his romantic fantasies and the fierce moral  and political compass-exemplified in books such as \u003ci\u003eCanto Genera\u003c\/i\u003el-that made him an adamant champion of the dignity of ordinary men and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited  and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans, this is the most  comprehensive single-volume collection of this prolific poet's work in  English. Here the finest translations of nearly six hundred poems by  Neruda are collected and join specially commissioned new translations  that attest to Neruda's still-resounding presence in American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164913680624,"sku":"9781466894532","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894532_p0.jpg?v=1763688093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894532","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}