Pablo Neruda, a Few Sad Lines, and a Fight
by Matthew Koslowski on January 6, 2010
in Anecdotes
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Love: Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda (various trans.)
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100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Bilingual Edition) by Pablo Neruda (Stephen Tapscott, trans.)
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I’ve been reading a lot of poetry by Pablo Neruda in translation. And whenever I read Pablo Neruda, I wish that I were fluent in Spanish so that I could understand what he wrote.
I rediscovered, “Tonight I Can Write…”, a poem I have struggled with since college. My first reading of this poem lead to a fight with one of my favorite professors, Dr. K–.
And I learned a lot from the experience.
