Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems by Robert Bly (EPUB)

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“Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America’s greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America’s foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless volume.”—Long Beach Press Telegram

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Robert Bly really “gets” Neruda. He beautifully describes the life and heart and soul of this man who lived in and wrote from the limitless view experienced from the depths of the subconscious mind. Like Jonas Salk, and many other great men, Neruda learned in this aware state that we are all one, that all of humanity is part of a glorious tapestry, each of us a thread, and that we are all here for the betterment of the rest. Salk gave us the elimination of a horrible disease, Neruda gave the gift of his insight and love in poems left at the feet of every man to honor each one and lift him up from his struggles.

⭐These Neruda poems are some of the best I know of in all the world. As good as Rilke and nearly as good as Lorca. They are magical, true poetry. Sometimes you can’t tell what they are about. They spin off into a realm of meaning that is different from prose or drama and hard to describe. Suffice it to say I love them. My friends do, too. Unfortunately, I don’t care for the Vallejo works here. They seem trivial and mundane by comparison. But I recommend this book.

⭐I would recommend this to anyone as the only book one meeds to penetrate the mysteries of life; to feel deeply; to understand our natural resonnance to this life; and to remember our humanity and our cruelty. The metaphors have a life of their own; they outlive us by their sophistication and yoked simplicity.

⭐I purchased this book despite another review warning about the Kindle edition. One reason I did was that the introduction is so long that when you download the sample, you only see the introduction, not any of the poems, so there was no way to test the layout issue the other reviewer raised. I figured I could probably handle the confusion, but I was unfortunately very wrong. The book was completely unreadable in its Kindle version — the printed version is laid out on facing pages (Spanish and English), and when this is ported to Kindle, those two versions of each poem become completely garbled with each other and impossible to follow. I was very disappointed, because from all appearances, the text of the book itself is excellent. I would absolutely buy this book in print, but it needs to be reformatted before it is usable on the Kindle.(Note: I read Kindle books in an app on my Android phone, so that’s the format I was seeing)

⭐Not my favorite translator.

⭐I have read a great number of Pablo’s poems and loved them, but knew nothing about Vallejo. He is good but rests at the knee of Neruda.

⭐Gave as a gift ..was a huge hit ..Absolutely love the beautiful language of the poetry in this book!! Especially the poem about wool socks 🙂

⭐This book suffers from terrible layout issues. Many of the poems are actually images, not text, so they are not searchable nor can you bookmark passages. Poems are often interrupted with stanzas in the other language. It was a lazy job by the publisher and is hardly readable.

⭐great poetry

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