The Yellow Heart by Pablo Neruda (PDF)

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⭐Yet one more fine translation by William O’Daly of the late work of Pablo Neruda.This collection of a sort of magical surrealism displays Neruda’s social and political commentary partly hidden by personal mythologies and ironic treatments of the “poet” himself and other actors. Despite the humor, or perhaps because f it, there is a poignancy to the poems and indeed the collection as a whole.Neruda knew his cancer was going to kill him soon. And he had watched a his hopes for Chile were destroyed by the cancer of CIA-supported Fascism.His biting satire mocks those middle class suburbanites who buy and buy and still die, and all those who fall again and again foran endless track of championsand in a corner we, forgottenmaybe because of everybody else,since they seemed so much like usuntil they were robbed of their laurels,their medals, their titles, their names.This passage has echoes of the Martin Niemöller poem:First they came for the Jewsand I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.Then they came for the Communistsand I did not speak outbecause I was not a Communist.Then they came for the trade unionistsand I did not speak outbecause I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for meand there was no one leftto speak out for me.Nonetheless, there is a forgiveness–for himself and for all the other flawed and fearful antiheroes of his poems. And he himself, at last “turn(s) toward my truth/because I am lacking a life.”A collection to be read and reread.

⭐This short book includes 21 poems both in the original Spanish and their English translation. I can’t speak of the quality of the translations but the poems are superb. Written after being diagnosed with cancer, these poems offer a certain decision to live (“Now and then, I am happy!”), and a certain freedom. There is a poem of the Ostrogodo family that “spoke so often of the dead … that a strange thing happened”., of “a naked man who lived for many long years”, “a poem of lightening and of disasters of raining ash”, of “dismantled Cervantes”, and a life in the suburbs. I’d probably recommend reading the poems first, then the introduction, since O’Daly perhaps offers too much interpretation on first reading.

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