Neruda's Garden: An Anthology of Odes
By Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo NerudaCollected and translated by Maria Jacketti
ISBN: 0-935480-68-4v
Price: $18.00
Pages: 256
This excellent bilingual edition gives readers a glimpse into Latin America's most prolific writer: Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Vaulted to national recognition from the Oscar-nominated movie The Postman (Il Postino) which is based on the novel by fellow Chilean Antonio Skármeta, Neruda's Garden adds fuel to the burning interest in Neruda's work. The New York Times calls his work "erotically and politically charged" and Publishers Weekly found that after the success of The Postman, the demand for Neruda's work caused two-fold increase in sales in just a few months. Translator Maria Jacketti is a poet and instructor whose work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In Neruda's Garden, Jacketti combines a selection of forty-seven renderings of the poet's work in English.
"Maria Jacketti's selection from all four volumes of Pablo
Neruda's Odas, affords English language readers a
welcome opportunity to experience the full range of these
poems."
--Handbook of Latin American Studies
"The forty-seven poems that Maria Jacketti has chosen
provide a good illustration of Neruda's work in this form...as
to the odes themselves, their simple beauty remains both
timeless and uplifting."
--British Bulletin of Publications