Neruda: Selected Poems (Record no. 7868)
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| fixed length control field | 01645nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 90004682 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780395544181 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 21563871 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PQ8097.N4 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 861 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pablo Neruda |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Neruda: Selected Poems |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Houghton Mifflin |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 508 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment to the communist faith. Born in 1904 in the rainy south of Chile, he enjoyed from an early age the luck of attention. One of his first books, Twenty Love Poems, became a bible for lovers in the Spanish language, and confirmed him in his poet's vocation. At the same time he pursued a lifelong career as a diplomat, serving in a series of consular posts in the Far East and Europe. In 1971, while serving as Chilean ambassador to France, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In a famous essay, "On Impure Poetry," Neruda calls for "a poetry as impure as old clothes, as a body with its foodstains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophesies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations, and taxes." |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | NP |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Poetry |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 861 NERU | 56300 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |