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Title: The Heights of Macchu Picchu : Bilingual Edition by Nathaniel Tarn, Pablo Neruda ISBN: 0-374-50648-5 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1967 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: masterful
Comment: Neruda is easily one of the 20th centuries greatest poets. The Heights of Macchu Picchu is an excellent poem (Tarn's translation is a good one). It weakens a bit towards the end, but the first 2/3 of the poems is wonderful stuff. And Robert Pring-Mill prefaces this edition with a great essay that really takes you into the meaning of Neruda's poem.
Rating: 5
Summary: Neruda: one of the greatest Latin American Poets .
Comment: Pablo Neruda, born in Chile 1904, is one of the greatest Latin American Poets to have livedwas one of Latin America's greatest poets.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (considered by some to be his finest poem) was inspired by his journey to this famed ruined Peruvian Inca city. These poems take on a progressive journey within both the past of Latin America and the roots of the poet himself.
Lovers and devoted students of poetry will be caught up in Neruda's poetic power, hopefully capturing the quintessence of this great poets mind. Others, like myself, who are occasional readers of poetry, may need to reread his words, but, through the rereading, Neruda's own spirit will descend into you mind.
Pablo Neruda speaks to the heart and struggle of us all, as he writes, "How many times in wintry streets, or in a bus, a boat a dusk,.... in the very lair of human pleasure, have I wanted to pause and look for the eternal, unfathomable truth's filament I'd fingered once in stone, or in the flash of a kiss released." Highly Recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: My most beloved poem
Comment: Pablo Neruda must have written a thousand gorgeous and soul-shaking poems on everything from socks to multinational corporations, but in my (limited) experience, this is his most amazing work. He threads together a wide scope of metaphors-- corn, gloves, roses, lightning, streams, autobuses--as he searches through life for meaning and truth. Sounds like a worn-out, pretentious topic? Think again...Neruda doesn't indulge in philosophical navel-gazing, but delves into the most earthy, mundane, yet painful details of life in his quest. He encounters not a simple answer but the revelation of past tragedy, and a role for himself in bringing about the truth of justice. The poem's beauty may not hit like lightning at first--it must be absorbed bit by bit.
Although I must have read Poem 10 (Antigua America, novia sumergida) fifty times, it always sends chills down my spine and sends me thousands of feet high into the Andes. The Heights of Macchu Picchu has comforted me when I felt lonely, helped me write my college essays, and helped me see my future plans as worthwhile instead of idealistic mush. Anyone concerned with the history of Latin America, social justice, nature, or the works of Neruda should read this poem.
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Title: The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour by Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra ISBN: 1555663079 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved by Jonathan Star ISBN: 1585420646 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 05 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Inca Trail, Cusco & Machu Picchu, 2nd: Includes The Vilcabamba Trail and Lima City Guide by Richard Danbury ISBN: 187375664X Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov, Chingiz Aiitmatov, Chinghiz Aitmatov, John French ISBN: 0253204828 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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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