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THE HOUSE IN THE SAND [UNA CASA EN LA ARENA] : English & Spanish Edition)
by Pablo Neruda; Marjorie Agosin (Foreword); (Ariel Dorfman, Afterword); (Dennis Maloney & Clark M. Zlotchew, English Translation);
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0915943492
- ISBN 13
- 9780915943494
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About This Item
Minnesota, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2018. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Alicia D'Amico (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/sticker-removal scar to rear cover verso. First Edition, First Printing. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; sound w/2 tiny red spots to lower front (publisher's flaw?) & sticker removal shadow to lower back. Anthology of 38, bi-lingual (Spanish & English), prose poems by Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet, diplomat and politician.Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973). The House in the Sand faces the sea. Known to many Neruda's favorite home was on Isla Negra facing the Pacific. 11 poems can be traced there. The great love was the sea, of which he wrote: "The sea sings and beats; it's not in its right mind. Don'it tie it down. Don't lock it up. It is still being born.". So it it is, through the sea he is sings of folklore, history, scientific inquiry, biography, diaries, and of life itself as an endless continually procreating force. The last line in the first poem, The Sea, reads: "In the ocean, a man dissolves like a bar of salt. And the water doesn't know it".
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- Title
- THE HOUSE IN THE SAND [UNA CASA EN LA ARENA] : English & Spanish Edition)
- Author
- Pablo Neruda; Marjorie Agosin (Foreword); (Ariel Dorfman, Afterword); (Dennis Maloney & Clark M. Zlotchew, English Translation);
- Illustrator
- Alicia D'Amico (Photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0915943492
- ISBN 13
- 9780915943494
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Place of Publication
- Minnesota, MN
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Anthology/Poetry/The Sea/Pablo Neruda
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry/Verse;
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