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Poetic perfection from Chile and Greece
Collections from Pablo Neruda, Nicolas Calas and Tasos Leivaditis
GREATS: (Left to right) Tasos Leivaditis, Nicolas Calas and Pablo Neruda
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READERS who only know the political poetry of Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda (1904-73) will be surprised and delighted by The Captain’s Verses (Carcanet, £14.99).
Published anonymously in 1952, this bilingual edition is a reprint of the Anvil Press 2003 edition translated by Brian Cole. They are a series of poems written for Neruda’s third wife, Matilde:
“I did not pause in the struggle./I did not cease to march towards life,/towards peace, towards bread for all,/but I lifted you up in my arms/and I nailed you to my kisses/and I gazed on you as never/human eyes will gaze on you again.”
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