Odes to Spoons and Stalin: Stavans Returns to Neruda
Submitted on Tuesday, 2/18/2014, at 3:30 PM
by Bill Sweet
This year Chile marked the 40th anniversary of the death of poet-statesman-Nobel Prizewinner Pablo Neruda with celebrations of his work and the exhumation of his body.
Just in time for the former —and having nothing to do with the latter, he assures us— Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, is now celebrating the publication of a new volume of Neruda translations, All the Odes.