{"product_id":"five-decades-poems-1925-1970-9780802130358","title":"Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The most prolific, influential and inventive poet of the Spanish language.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner, “our great Latin-American Whitmanesque father” (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned, and ferociously intelligent as he was sensual. “Neruda’s poetry inevitably calls forth Wagnerian language from overwhelmed observers—force of nature, “avalanche,” “volcano’ . . . [He] led an epic life as a revolutionary prophet and . . . national hero in Chile” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Belitt has drawn the 138 selections in Five Decades from all of Neruda’s major works, including the early volumes \u003ci\u003eResidence on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeneral Song\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElemental Odes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVoyages and Homecomings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBook of Vagaries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Love Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Island Memorial\u003c\/i\u003e, and the later \u003ci\u003eThe Hands of Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld’s End\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSkystones\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pablo Neruda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956008849526,"sku":"9780802130358","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_36c68a72-044e-4e76-af4d-259480cc6073.jpg?v=1777755668","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/five-decades-poems-1925-1970-9780802130358","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}