Then come back by Pablo Neruda and translated by Forrest Gander

This is poetry from Chile.

Then come back by Pablo Neruda translated by Forrest Gander is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556594946E12.

Pablo Neruda’s Then Come Back, translated by Forrest Gander, offers a later and more intimate form of return. The title sounds like an invitation, a command, a plea, or a spell. Neruda’s poetry is often associated with vastness: ocean, continent, history, desire, and the public voice. But return in Neruda is also deeply personal, tied to love, memory, place, and the elemental world that keeps calling the speaker back into relation. Gander’s translation brings a contemporary lyric intelligence to the task, allowing the poems to feel alive in English rather than preserved under glass. I would recommend this book to readers who want Neruda beyond the most anthologized versions. Then Come Back is a book of address and recurrence, where the world departs and returns, and the poet keeps asking language to make that movement felt.

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