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Title: Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0-06-018285-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00

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Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful poems / sensative translations
Comment: If you aren't familiar with the Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda, this collection of his mature work would be a excellent way to get aquainted.

Mitchell's translations are, perhaps, the best english renderings of Neruda. As he did in his Rilke translations, Mitchell has put connotative value above denotative, i.e. the general feeling of a phrase is always preserved, sometimes at the expense of the word-for-word accuracy. This, to me, is the right approach, especially with a poet such as Neruda, who relies so heavily on creating a landscape across a whole work. Like impressionist art, one must view the whole canvas at once - focusing on details will dilute the work to nonsense.

The body of work here represents only a small period of Neruda's mature output. They are not his most important work. But I, like Mitchell, identify with these poems closely. They pay hommage to everyday tasks and objects, and therefore force me to examine my own pedestrian life.

Neruda did not write for poets; he wrote for us. These poems aren't worth anylaizing because they poured out of Neruda's pen like blood from a wound. The closer his lines are to nonsense, they closer they are to our souls.