All the odes

Format:

Book

Title:

All the odes

Uniform Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Author:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973.

ISBN:

9780374115289

9780374534929

Edition:

1st ed., A bilingual ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 861 pages ; 25 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Prologue: The Invisible Man -- Ode to an Abandoned House -- Ode to Acario Cotapos -- Ode to Age -- Ode to an Aged Poet -- Ode to Air -- Ode to the Americas -- Ode to the Anchor -- Ode to the Andean Cordillera -- Ode to Angel Cruchaga -- Ode to the Apple -- Ode to the Araucanian Araucaria -- Ode to the Artichoke -- Ode to the Atom -- Ode to Autumn -- Ode to the Azure Flower -- Ode to the Bad Blind Man -- Ode to Barbed Wire -- Ode to a Beautiful Nude -- Ode to the Bed -- Ode to Bees -- Ode to Bicycles -- Ode to Bird Migration -- Ode to the Birds of Chile -- Ode to Bird-Watching -- Ode to a Black Pantheress -- Ode to the Book I -- Ode to the Book II -- Ode to a Bouquet of Violets -- Ode to a Box of Tea -- Ode to Bread -- Ode to Broken Things -- Ode to the Building -- Ode and Burgeonings -- Ode to the Butterfly -- Ode to the Carnation -- Ode to the Cat -- Ode to Cesar Vallejo -- Ode to the Chair -- Ode to a Chestnut on the Ground -- Ode to Clarity -- Ode to the Clothes -- Ode to Clouds -- Ode to the Coastal Flowers -- Ode to the Color Green -- Ode to Conger Chowder -- Ode to Copper -- Ode to a Couple -- Ode to the Cranium -- Ode to Criticism -- Ode to Criticism II -- Ode to a Day of Victories: Seventh of November -- Ode to a Dead Carob Tree -- Ode to the Dead Millionaire -- Ode to the Dictionary -- Ode to the Displaced Cactus -- Ode to the Diver -- Ode to the Dog -- Ode to Don Jorge Manrique -- Ode to the Earth -- Ode to the Earth II -- Ode to the Elephant -- Ode to Enchanted Light -- Ode to Energy -- Ode to Envy -- Ode to the Erosion in Malleco Province -- Odes for Everyone -- Ode to the Eye -- Ode to a Fallen Bell -- Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca -- Ode to the Fertility of the Soil -- Ode to a Few Yellow Flowers -- Ode to Fire -- Ode to Firefoot -- Ode to the Firewood Car -- Ode to the First Day of the Year -- Ode to the Fishing Boat -- Ode to the Flower -- Ode to the Flowers of Datitla -- Ode to the Fortunate voyage -- Ode to French Fries -- Ode to the Gentle Bricklayer -- Ode to the Globe -- Ode to the Good Blind Man -- Ode to Gratitude -- Ode to the Great Wall in the Fog -- Ode to Guatemala -- Ode to the Guitar -- Ode to Happiness -- Ode to the Happy Day -- Ode to a Hare-Boy -- Ode to Her Scent -- Ode to Hope -- Ode to the Horse -- Ode to the Hummingbird -- Ode to the Inconsequential Day -- Ode to Ironing -- Ode Before the Island of Ceylon -- Ode to Jean Arthur Rimbaud -- Ode to Juan Tarrea -- Ode to a Laboratory Technician -- Ode with a Lament -- Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market -- Ode to the Last Voyage of La Bretona -- Ode to Laziness -- Ode to the Lemon -- Ode to Lenin -- Ode to Leningrad -- Ode to Life -- Ode to the Liver -- Ode to the Lizard -- Ode to Love -- Ode to the Magnolia -- Ode to Maize -- Ode to the Malvenida -- Ode to Marine Light -- Ode to Marine Space -- Ode to a Mirabilis Jalapa; The Night, Blooming Four O'Clock -- Ode to the Month of August -- Ode to the Moon -- Ode to the Moon of the Sea -- Ode to a Morning in Brazil -- Ode to a Morning in Stockholm -- Ode to the Murmur -- Ode to the Myrrh Tree -- Ode About My Sorrows -- Ode to the Names of Venezuela -- Ode to Night -- Ode to a Nocturnal Washerwoman -- Ode with Nostalgia for Chile -- Ode to Numbers -- Ode to an Offended Picaro -- Ode to Oil -- Ode to the Old Mapocho Station, in Santiago, Chile -- Ode to the Onion -- Ode to the Orange -- Ode to a Pair of Scissors -- Ode to a Pair of Socks -- Ode to the Past -- Ode to Paul Robeson -- Ode to Peace and Quiet -- Ode to the People's Army -- Ode to the Petrified Forest -- Ode to the Pharmacy -- Ode to the Piano -- Ode to the Plate -- Ode to the Plum -- Ode to Poetry -- Ode to the Popular Poets -- Ode to Poverty -- Ode to the Present -- Ode to Rain -- Ode to Ramon Gomez de la Serna -- Ode to a Red Truck Loaded with Barrels -- Ode to Restlessness -- Ode to Rio de Janeiro -- Ode to the Road -- Ode to the Rooster -- Ode to the Rose -- Ode to Sadness -- Ode to Salt -- Ode to Sand -- Ode to San Diego Street -- Ode to the Saw -- Ode to the Sea -- Ode to the Sea Gull -- Ode to Sea Rain -- Ode to the Seashore Cactus -- Ode to Seaweeds -- Ode to a Secret Love -- Ode to September -- Ode to a Ship in a Bottle -- Ode to the Simple Man -- Ode to Simplicity -- Ode to a Single Sea -- Ode to a Sleeping House -- Ode to the Smell of Firewood -- Ode to Soap -- Ode to Solidarity -- Ode to Solitude -- Ode to the Southern Cross -- Ode to the Spoon -- Ode to Spring -- Ode to the Spud -- Ode to a Stag's Birth -- Ode to a Stamp Album -- Ode to a Star -- Ode to the Stars -- Ode to the Stone -- Ode to the Storm -- Ode to the Storms of Cordoba -- Ode to Summer -- Ode to the Sun -- Ode to the Table -- Ode to Things -- Ode to the Third Day -- Ode to the Thread -- Ode to Time -- Ode to the Time to Come -- Ode to the Tomato -- Ode to the Tooth of the Sperm Whale -- Ode to a Train in China -- Ode to Trains of the South -- Ode to Two Autumns -- Ode to Typography -- Ode to Valparaiso -- Ode to a Village Movie Theater -- Ode to a Violin in California -- Ode to the Voyager Albatross -- Ode to Walt Whitman -- Ode to the Waltz over the Waves -- Ode to a Watch at Night -- Ode to the Waterfall -- Ode to Watering -- Ode to the Watermelon -- Ode to the Waters of the Port -- Ode to the Wave -- Ode to the Wheat of Indigenous People -- Ode to Wine -- Ode to the Wings of September -- Ode to Winter -- Ode in Winter to the Mapocho River -- Ode to a Woman Gardening -- Ode to Wood -- Ode to the Yellow Bird -- Ode to Your Hands -- Epilogue: The House of Odes.

Summary:

"The first book to collect all of Pablo Neruda's odes, in any language; a bilingual edition"-- Provided by publisher.

Personal Subject:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973-Translations into English.

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973

Genre:

Odes, Spanish.

Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.

Bilingual materials, Spanish/English.

Added Author:

Stavans, Ilan.

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems. Selections.

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Poems. Selections. English.

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Summary

A career-spanning volume, charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode form

Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him--from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship with Federico García Lorca, from the seasons to his favorite places in Chile. He was in his late forties when he committed himself to writing an ode a week and in the end produced a total of 225, which are dispersed throughout his varied oeuvre. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan Stavans, the distinguished translator and scholar of Latin American literature, gathers all the odes together for the first time in any language. Rendered into English by an assortment of accomplished translators that includes Philip Levine, Paul Muldoon, Mark Strand, and Margaret Sayers Peden, collectively they read like the personal diary of a man in search of meaning who sings to life itself, to our connections with one another, and to the place we have in nature and the cosmos. All the Odes is a lasting statement on the role of poetry as a lightning rod during tumultuous times.

Author Notes

Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Ferral, Chile on July 12, 1904. In 1923 he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario (Twilight), which he published under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda. Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), which was published the following year, made him a celebrity and allowed him to stop his studies to devote himself to poetry.

His other works include España en el Corazón, Canto General, Las Uvas y el Viento, and Para Nacer He Nacido. He received numerous awards including the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature for his poetry in 1971. He died of leukemia on September 23, 1973.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The Chilean Nobel laureate, who died in 1973, combined stratospheric powers of invention with a fecundity that bordered on the prolix; among his many creations were 225 "odes," almost all in very short lines, connecting accessible, democratic vocabulary to exalted emotion. Most of the odes date from the 1950s; some odes on household objects (to a lemon, to a potato) remain much imitated in English. Stavans says he is the first to gather all the odes, including very late, very early, and more formal outliers. Stavans and a few lesser-known translators account for a large majority of translations here, though W. S. Merwin and Stephen Mitchell also appear. Along with a fishing boat, an elephant, vegetables, French fries, New Year's Day, and other this-worldly phenomena, Neruda's odes show both his communist and romantic sides, praising love itself, "clarity," "broken things," and V. I. Lenin. This enormous book provides an education of sorts into Neruda's contexts as well as his effusive mind. Daunting to read straight through, sometimes banal, the volume nonetheless has profuse delights: Neruda lauds seagulls "as you are:/ your insatiable voraciousness,/ your screech in the rain," while "Ode to Laziness" begins "Yesterday I felt this ode/ would not get off the floor." (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

The ode, a form with origins in Greek choral poetry, was revived in Elizabethan lyric poetry. Since then, its emphasis has been shifted to rhetorical apostrophization expounding on the nature of things and ideas. Perhaps no modern poet is so practiced a composer of odes as Neruda, who vowed to pen one a week. This enormous collection features a wide range of his best imagery (the verdant texture of corn's green hair, green needles of rain), odes that express his discomfiting sympathy for Stalinist politics, and many that are focused on men and insemination and that turn attention back to the poet with a wink. The greatest draw of this bilingual edition is editor Stavans' decision to present the whole Chilean enchilada, as it were, from the enchantingly narrative ( Ode to the Eye ) to the less excellent and problematically obscure ( Ode to Clarity ). The able translators, including poets Jane Hirshfield, Paul Muldoon, and W. S. Merwin, illuminate the original Spanish, and 70 poems have been translated for the first time into English. A substantial gathering of universally influential work.--Baez, Diego Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Here, appearing in one place for the first time, are all 250 odes (including some 70 previously untranslated) written by Nobel Prize-winner Neruda, possibly the best-selling foreign-language poet of all time in the United States. Although this anthology features 20 translators, including Margaret Sayers Peden and Ken Krabbenhoft, nearly half of the translations are by Stavans, a Latin Americanist who provides an introduction and identifies obscure references.ÅAs a translator Stavans claims to be a purist, and his purism can sometimes lead to awkwardly literal phraseologies (e.g., "From how many places/ disseminated across the geography/ light from here underachieved its elevation/ in triumphant unity"). Most of Neruda's odes concern ordinary things, such as a shoe, a lemon, or a cat; some celebrate places such as Ceylon or names on the map of Venezuela; still others are addressed to individuals such as Federico Garcia Lorca, Walt Whitman, whom Neruda recognizes as his greatest poetic influence,Åand Paul Robeson, who "broke the silence of the rivers/ when they were dumb / because of the blood they carried." VERDICTÅReaders of poetry can't afford to miss this.-Jack Shreve, Allegany Coll. of Maryland, Cumberland (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.