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Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (1904–73), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Farral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

Articles by Pablo Neruda

Ode to the Andean Cordillera

By Pablo Neruda

The cold candelabra / of your elevated / solitudes of snow

Translated from Spanish by Ilan Stavans

Ode to Ángel Cruchaga

By Pablo Neruda

You were / the silvery tail / of a green mermaid / crossing the sky.

Translated from Spanish by Ilan Stavans

Ode to the Flowers of Datitla

By Pablo Neruda

The tiger-flower flourishes / with three tongues / of ultraviolet love.

Translated from Spanish by Ilan Stavans

Ode to Juan Tarrea

By Pablo Neruda

I cannot / worry about you, poor Tarrea.

Translated from Spanish by Ilan Stavans

Ode to Jean Arthur Rimbaud

By Pablo Neruda

Now, / this October / you will turn / a hundred, / harrowing friend.

Translated from Spanish by Ilan Stavans