The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition

Pablo Neruda's most famous long poem, with the English translations and original Spanish presented side by side.

The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symbolic qualities of a personal venture into the interior as the poem progresses, exploring both the roots of the poet's identity and the history of Latin America.

This translation has been rendered by the distinguished poet Nathaniel Tarn and is presented in a bilingual edition, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages.

Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/01/1967
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780374506483
ISBN10: 0374506485
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American

About the Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-73), one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.