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Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda
Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda | Pablo Neruda
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Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered.""A literary event of universal importance.""The Guardian""The earliest poem in the collection dates to 1956, and several are love poems, a form Neruda was famous for.""The New York Times""This new volume will be a labor of love for the publisher and a joy for readers everywhere.""Library Journal"Pablo Neruda's lost poemsrecently discovered in his archive to the delight of readers and scholarscomprise this remarkable and essential volume.Originally composed on napkins, playbills, receipts, and notebooks, Neruda's lost poems are full of eros and heartache, complex wordplay and deep wonder. Presented with the Spanish text, full-color reproductions of handwritten poems, and dynamic English translations, "Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda "simultaneously completes and advances the oeuvre of the world's most beloved poet."Crossing the sky I nearthe red ray of your hair.Of earth and wheat I am and as I close-inyour fire kindles itselfinside me and the rocksand flour ignite.That's why my heartexpands and risesinto bread for your mouth to devour, and my blood is wine poured for you.You and I are the land with its fruit.Bread, fire, blood and winemake up the earthly love that sears us. "Pablo Neruda (19041973) is one of the world's most beloved and best-selling poets. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.Translator Forrest Gander teaches at Brown University and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize."
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CaliforniaCay
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This was my 5th #spanishbook so far. My first time reading Neruda, but not the last! My only complaint is that the english and spanish versions weren't side by side, but all of the English translations were in the front with the poems in their original Spanish in the back. I had to flip back and forth a lot but still worth the read because I learned a lot of new spanish words. Lots of Neruda's handwritten notes are included.

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GatheringBooks
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Neruda's words remind me just how visceral the effect of poetry can be to me, leaving me out of breath. He is the wind to my leaf.

ValerieAndBooks Love Pablo Neruda! 7y
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My date during my last night in Shanghai. Bibliophiles never go to bed alone. Neruda shall keep me company.

magictoyshop Oooh I got this from Kickstarter too! Absolutely love it!!!! 7y
GatheringBooks @magictoyshop ordered this via book depository- not familiar with kickstarter, you'd have to educate me on that one. :) 7y
magictoyshop @GatheringBooks oh! what I meant was (I think) this particular edition and translation started as a crowd funding project on Kickstarter.com. I was excited because I was one of the contributors. 🤓so glad to see its now being sold on book depository! 😃 7y
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GatheringBooks
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Clearly, ze husband knows how to spoil his girls during Valentine's (and International Book Giving Day). Daughter received her TWD comics while I got poetry and fantasy. Plus we got flowers and sweets! ;)

BellaBookNook Definitely a good man!! 7y
Chachic What lovely gifts! 7y
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Nutmegnc
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The quote, the handwritten pages. The first poem takes my breath away. I have loved his poetry for as long as I've been learning Spanish, which seems like most of my life. I love to add in small poems wherever I can in my classes, especially his Odes to Ordinary Things, but I get the impression no one quite likes him as much as I do. My Spouse tells me this is the fifth book of Neruda we've bought but I surely don't have enough Neruda yet???!!!

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Twocougs
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Sunday morning bookstore shopping😍

ramyasbookshelf Neruda ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 8y
Well-ReadNeck Ooooooh, adding to list. I love Neruda!!! 8y
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Twocougs

Sunday morning bookstore shopping😍

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fabulistfictions
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Found this beautiful book in my mail this morning. Can't wait to start.

Yossarian You should notify the authorities that you found the lost poems! Someone is probably looking for them. 8y
fabulistfictions @Yossarian I think Copper Canyon beat me to it! 😁 8y
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The books I'm keeping at work this month

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RodChain
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I've just received this and have started the slow beautiful journey through the poems. There is nothing quite like a book of poetry from an author of Neruda's talent.