The Book of Questions av Pablo Neruda

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<p><b>A best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda''s poetry in an English-Spanish edition.</b></p><p>Pablo Neruda is one of the world''s most popular poets, and in <i>The Book of Questions</i>, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. By turns Orphic, comic, surreal, and poignant, Neruda''s questions lead the reader <i>beyond</i> reason into realms of intuition and pure imagination.<p> This complete translation of Pablo Neruda''s <i>El libro de las preguntas</i> (<i>The Book of Questions</i>) features Neruda''s original Spanish-language poems alongside William O''Daly''s English translations. In his introduction O''Daly, who has translated eight volumes of Pablo Neruda''s poetry, writes, These poems, more so than any of Neruda''s other work, remind us that living in a state of visionary surrender to the elemental questions, free of the quiet desperation of clingin