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Sublime Blue
Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda | Pablo Neruda
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A translation of Pablo Neruda's early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addressed to hope and to gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and to artichokes. Reflecting the lucent, candid vitality driving Neruda's charming accounts, these poems celebrate things big and the small: even lamentations become commemorations. Compassionately amused one moment then sobered by injustice and supportive of resistance the next, this bilingual compilation will appeal to fans of one of the 20th century's most popular poets.
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Bradleygirl
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I read a bunch of poems from my Galway Kinnell collection this AM but none are really quotable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So here's the last of the Neruda instead!
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana

monalyisha OoOOo I love that chunk about “communing” in the middle! 5y
Redwritinghood Lovely. 5y
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Wow, finished this collection! There were a lot of gems. It's "early" Neruda so I'll have to look up more of his work later.
#Poemsbeforephones #poetryreading
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana

Redwritinghood Glad you enjoyed it! 5y
DivineDiana Reminiscent of the “jug of wine” line from The Rubaiyat that I posted yesterday. 🍷 5y
monalyisha @DivineDiana @Bradleygirl All the wine, all the time. 😉🍷 5y
Bradleygirl @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana @monalyisha poetry and wine are forever married 🤝 5y
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Redwritinghood But this was still a great poem to start the day! 5y
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monalyisha I like “velocity of joy” — & your color scheme! 5y
Redwritinghood Wow! Very powerful words. 5y
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gradcat This is so excellent! It‘s a great poet who can write such beautiful lines about an artichoke 📝👌🏻❤️ 5y
DivineDiana To cook an artichoke #Kitchengoals 🙂 5y
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Redwritinghood Yay! Love him. 5y
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Confession: I hate poetry. Hate it. I read this because it was short and fulfilled the Book Riot Read Harder prompt of poetry in translation on a subject other than love. I'm using it for my TBR/Reading Challenge Bingo free space. I'm also blurbing this instead of reviewing it because I would pan it, because I hate poetry, and that's not fair to the author. The issue is totally me. I know that.

Eyelit Same here! I just can't get into poetry at all. 7y
britt_brooke 😆 I can't say I'm a huge poetry fan either, but I also haven't read very much of it. 7y
Melissa_J I don't much like poetry either. 7y
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Mdargusch I'm a fellow poetry hater! 7y
mjdowens Oh Man!!!! So glad someone else opened up that door. I don't get poetry and never have. Don't like it and don't think I ever will. 7y
ReadingRover Maybe try some that's more like prose so it reads more like a story instead of a rhyme scheme. That can help. But it's not for everyone. 😬 7y
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