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Worlds End, like much Neruda, contains bewildering multitudes. Some poems incite, others console, as the poet--maestro of his own response and impresario of ours--Looks inward and out.--Los Angeles TimesWe are faced with the unavoidable task of critical communication within a world which is empty and is not less full of injustices, punishments and sufferings because it is empty.--from Pablo Nerudas Nobel Prize addressThis is the first complete English language translation of the late work by Neruda, the greatest of Latin American poets, translated by ODaly, a specialist in Nerudas late and posthumous work....Highly recommended for poetry and Latin American collections. --Library JournalWilliam O. Dalys translation of Pablo Nerudas book-length poem, Fin de mundo, is a veritable poets companion and guide to the twentieth century. This is Pablo Neruda at his best and most honest....Nerudas poems are a quiet but potent celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.--Sacramento Book ReviewIn this book-length poem, completely translated for the first time into English and presented in a bilingual format, Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda composes a valediction to the Sixties and confronts a grim disillusionment growing inside him. Terrifying, beautiful, vast, and energized, Nerudas work speaks of oppression and warfare, his own guilt, and the ubiquitous fear that came to haunt the century that promised to end all wars.Worlds End also marks the final book in Copper Canyons dynamic nine-book series of Nerudas late and posthumous work. These best-selling books have become perennial favorites of poetry readers, librarians, and teachers. Through this series, translator William ODaly has been recognized as one of the worlds most insightful caretakers of Nerudas poetry, and Publishers Weekly praised his efforts as awe-inspiring.My truest vocationwas to become a mill: singing in the water, I studiedthe motives of transparencyand learned from the abundant wheatthe identity that repeats itself.Pablo Neruda is one of the worlds beloved poets. He served as a Chilean diplomat and won the Nobel Prize in 1971.William ODaly has dedicated thirty years to translating the late and posthumous work of Pablo Neruda. He lives in California.
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