The Captain's Verses (Los Versos del Capitan): The Love Poems

Gabriel García Márquez
The greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language.


Review
A revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged.


Gabriel García Márquez
The greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language.


Review
A revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged.


Book Description
New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. The Captain's Verses was first published anonymously in 1952, some years before Neruda married Matilde Urrutia - the one with "the fire / of an unchained meteor" - to whom he had addressed these poems of love, ecstasy, devotion, and fury. Our bilingual edition is seen by many as the most intimate and passionate volume of Neruda's love poetry, capturing all the erotic energy of a new love.


Language Notes
Text: English, Spanish


About the Author
Born on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile, Pablo Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile.


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Pablo Neruda finished writing The Captain's Verses (Los versos del Capitan) in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri -- the paradisal setting of the blockbuster film, Il postino (The Postman), that centers around this period of Neruda's life. Surrounded by the sea, sun, and the natural splendor of a thousand vineyards, Neruda addressed these poems of love, ecstasy, devotion, and fury to his lover, Matilde Urrutia, the one "with the fire / of an unchained meteor." Later the same year, Neruda published The Captain's Verses anonymously in an edition of fifty copies, fourteen years before he and Matilde legally married. The first "acknowledged" edition would not appear until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for lovestruck readers around the world -- passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.


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