About the Book: All the Odes
A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureates work in the ode form
Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just
about everything that surrounded him, from an artichoke to the clouds in the
sky, from the moon to his own friendship with Federico García Lorca and his
favorite places in Chile. He was in his late forties when he committed himself
to writing an ode a week, and in the end he produced a total of 225, which are
dispersed throughout his varied oeuvre. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan
Stavans, a