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ISBN-10: 1556594445
ISBN-13: 9781556594441
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 12/30/2014
Dimensions: 7.55" L, 5.49" W, 0.23" H

The Heights of Macchu Picchu

Translator: Tomas Q Morin

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Price: $17.00

Overview

A poem in twelve canticles, The Heights of Macchu Picchu is perhaps Pablo Neruda’s greatest contribution to poetry. This new stand-alone translation of the second section of his masterful Canto general proves the continued relevance and power of political verse.

Inspired by Neruda’s journey to the ancient ruins, ‘The Heights of Macchu Picchu’ is a poem for the laborers and the forgotten victims of empire in the Americas. Considering the wonder and beauty of this Incan citadel, he sees through to the suffering of those who built it. “I sank my muddy and gentle hand / into the precious treasure of the earth,” he says:

I dipped my forehead between the deep waves,

I ran like a single drop in peaceful sulfur,

and, like a blind man, returned to the jasmine

of our depleted human spring.

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

"'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' is a poem of ascension. . . . In its final passages, Neruda's poetry jumps from a personal hope to a global one; from a poetry dealing with the poet's heart to a poetry centered on humanity's struggles. Similar to T.S. Eliot's 1921 poem 'The Waste Land' in showing the emptiness of the modern world, 'The Heights of Macchu Picch'u offers a solution that Eliot never did: become one with your past and use this to create a better future." –BBC

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ISBN-10: 1556594445
ISBN-13: 9781556594441
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 12/30/2014
Dimensions: 7.55" L, 5.49" W, 0.23" H
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