{"product_id":"extravagaria-a-bilingual-edition-9780374512385","title":"Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile things are settling down, \u003cbr\u003ehere I've left my testament, \u003cbr\u003emy shifting extravagaria, \u003cbr\u003eso whoever goes on reading it\u003cbr\u003ewill never take in anything\u003cbr\u003eexcept the constant moving\u003cbr\u003eof a clear and bewildered man, \u003cbr\u003ea man rainy and happy, \u003cbr\u003elively and autumn-minded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"Autumn testament\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtravagaria\u003c\/i\u003e marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. The collection celebrates this coming to rest, this rediscovery of the sea and the land, and the evolution of a a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than Neruda's earlier work. Written in what he called his \"autumnal\" period, the sixty-eight poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePablo Neruda\u003c\/b\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648831885586,"sku":"9780374512385","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0eeaa30-f587-4e00-95d2-569791a972c4.jpg?v=1733250086","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/extravagaria-a-bilingual-edition-9780374512385","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}