Book record
The hands of day
Pablo Neruda
Translated from Spanish by William O'Daly
Pablo Neruda's The Hands of Day, translated by William O'Daly, belongs to the later Neruda of elemental attention, where the world is approached through objects, labor, light, bread, stone, sea, and human touch. The title is wonderfully Nerudian because it gives the day a body. Time does not simply pass. It reaches, holds, works, and blesses. O'Daly's translation continues the important work of making Neruda's less narrowly famous books available to English-language readers, allowing us to see beyond the love poems most commonly circulated. The Hands of Day is generous in its orientation toward the material world. It asks the reader to remember that the ordinary is not lesser material for poetry. A hand, a tool, a morning, a surface, a daily task: all of these can become part of the poem's immense human weather.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781556592720