Cantos Ceremoniales. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1961].
First edition.
Large Octavo. 111, [8] pp. Original printed wrappers; wrappers have some wear & chipping, as well as some staining to back cover; end-papers spotted, stain running through last 2 leaves of book. Interior is otherwise fresh and clean, edges are uncut. Signed by Neruda on fly-leaf, with a lovely 15 line poetic inscription in his usual green ink.
First edition of this collection of poems, which includes "El Sobrino de Occidente, "Oceana," and "Toro."
Neruda (1904-73) was the penname used by the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto. While he was quite accomplished in a variety of styles, he was best known for his often erotically-charged love poems. Neruda was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, which was clouded with controversy due to his political activism. He was a dear friend and collaborator of Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende (uncle to writer Isabel Allende), and died of heart failure just twelve days after Allende’s assassination during Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état of Chile. His funeral became one of the first acts of public protest against Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The Nobel Prize winning Colombian novelist Gabriel GarcÃa Marquez considered him to be the greatest poet of the 20th Century.
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