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Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition
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Author: Pablo Neruda
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Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 861
EAN: 9780821220801
ISBN: 0821220802
Label: Bulfinch
Manufacturer: Bulfinch
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 152
Publication Date: 1994-05-01
Publisher: Bulfinch
Studio: Bulfinch
Dewey Decimal Number: 861
EAN: 9780821220801
ISBN: 0821220802
Label: Bulfinch
Manufacturer: Bulfinch
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 152
Publication Date: 1994-05-01
Publisher: Bulfinch
Studio: Bulfinch
Editorial Review of Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition
Customer Reviews of Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition
Customer Rating: 
Review Summary: Beautiful
Review: I love his poetry. The translation is not as good as I expected but it's OK. The drawings are beautiful.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It began with my flatware and a buttercup...
Review: This book was recommended to me from an extended discussion of photographs I found on a beautiful blog, Throughlines. The photo's there were taken when out in a mindful way looking at life by the writer, teacher, artist. These "ordinary", simple, composed, artfelt shots he took in his wandering...and they drew me in... and remain one of my favorite places to go look at photos. I was coincidentally drawing silver tableware. One of his photo's was of forks and this related to illustrations in this book. This fleeting exchange of feeling about the work with the photographer, English teacher in Hawaii led me to order the book he suggested.His blog leads one to read. And even more coincidentally a poet I admire also recommended the volume to me. It is as good as those recommendations-better. It has been a companion.
Perhaps it is about noticing life in the ordinary, the cup, spoon, the feel of the grit, sweat and use of the things we touch everyday. Neruda is so sensual, in Spanish sublimely so. He can turn a cup into the lips that you would love to place fingertips to caress. It's in this he has so very few equals. And given your heart's mood it can be a very deep container of all of the emotions that things provoke, lost friends, family, memories, traces. I'm trying to read these in both languages cycling the poems into my days life. I carry it in my purse and find it at times I can read in my peace..restore my inner self. And took the book on my trip to Chicago enjoying it on the plane, in my room, on the way here and there, in a rather bad diner, in the joy of being away with myself. And read it over and over in the hours and hours spent over two months in doctors offices waiting help with my chest and poor tummy. The book was very comforting I felt through it..
This is a lovely volume, a beautiful book to choose as a gift, it is illustrated with tender delicate black and white pencil illustrations of just the things that are everyday, salt shaker, spoon (my favorite), table each serving to highlight the focus of the poem. Neruda rides so close to heart rhythms, sounds, smells, the crush of silk on a thigh, the sound of the morning thrush, nothing is quite like reading this poet. At one time as a younger person i just could not read him, I felt so voyeuristic. Now a poem a day or so has been very touching. Very personal and like the objects he describes inside my places and moments.
I recall now that this was all tied conversationally to mentioning my thinking of Janet Fish originally, the super realist painter of glass and objects that have meanings just for her, where light and reflection dances us through the spaces. Indeed here Neruda dances us through these objects as connections to our meanings, his meanings, the blood of life.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This is the quintessential Naruda tome.
Review: I cannot be without this book. It gives one all there could be to know about love and life. It is well worth its cost and leaves the reader that much smarter about everything that matters in love (and life)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Delicious reading
Review: Neruda's use of language is truly sensual, in both English and Spanish. I must read for word lovers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ode to the Odes to Common Things Book
Review: WOW. I've never been so moved by this book. As I began to read it, I sensed so many different things. How can such wonderful feelings be sensed by such common things. Pablo Neruda is a master in poetry. Im only 16 years old and I've never been so moved by such poetry. what an amazing man he was. it takes real gift to be able and write like that. This book really touched me, that sense and feeling in every line was enchanting. read this book, and you'll appreciate almost everything in life.
Review Summary: Beautiful
Review: I love his poetry. The translation is not as good as I expected but it's OK. The drawings are beautiful.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It began with my flatware and a buttercup...
Review: This book was recommended to me from an extended discussion of photographs I found on a beautiful blog, Throughlines. The photo's there were taken when out in a mindful way looking at life by the writer, teacher, artist. These "ordinary", simple, composed, artfelt shots he took in his wandering...and they drew me in... and remain one of my favorite places to go look at photos. I was coincidentally drawing silver tableware. One of his photo's was of forks and this related to illustrations in this book. This fleeting exchange of feeling about the work with the photographer, English teacher in Hawaii led me to order the book he suggested.His blog leads one to read. And even more coincidentally a poet I admire also recommended the volume to me. It is as good as those recommendations-better. It has been a companion.
Perhaps it is about noticing life in the ordinary, the cup, spoon, the feel of the grit, sweat and use of the things we touch everyday. Neruda is so sensual, in Spanish sublimely so. He can turn a cup into the lips that you would love to place fingertips to caress. It's in this he has so very few equals. And given your heart's mood it can be a very deep container of all of the emotions that things provoke, lost friends, family, memories, traces. I'm trying to read these in both languages cycling the poems into my days life. I carry it in my purse and find it at times I can read in my peace..restore my inner self. And took the book on my trip to Chicago enjoying it on the plane, in my room, on the way here and there, in a rather bad diner, in the joy of being away with myself. And read it over and over in the hours and hours spent over two months in doctors offices waiting help with my chest and poor tummy. The book was very comforting I felt through it..
This is a lovely volume, a beautiful book to choose as a gift, it is illustrated with tender delicate black and white pencil illustrations of just the things that are everyday, salt shaker, spoon (my favorite), table each serving to highlight the focus of the poem. Neruda rides so close to heart rhythms, sounds, smells, the crush of silk on a thigh, the sound of the morning thrush, nothing is quite like reading this poet. At one time as a younger person i just could not read him, I felt so voyeuristic. Now a poem a day or so has been very touching. Very personal and like the objects he describes inside my places and moments.
I recall now that this was all tied conversationally to mentioning my thinking of Janet Fish originally, the super realist painter of glass and objects that have meanings just for her, where light and reflection dances us through the spaces. Indeed here Neruda dances us through these objects as connections to our meanings, his meanings, the blood of life.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This is the quintessential Naruda tome.
Review: I cannot be without this book. It gives one all there could be to know about love and life. It is well worth its cost and leaves the reader that much smarter about everything that matters in love (and life)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Delicious reading
Review: Neruda's use of language is truly sensual, in both English and Spanish. I must read for word lovers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ode to the Odes to Common Things Book
Review: WOW. I've never been so moved by this book. As I began to read it, I sensed so many different things. How can such wonderful feelings be sensed by such common things. Pablo Neruda is a master in poetry. Im only 16 years old and I've never been so moved by such poetry. what an amazing man he was. it takes real gift to be able and write like that. This book really touched me, that sense and feeling in every line was enchanting. read this book, and you'll appreciate almost everything in life.