The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition
 

The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition

by Pablo Neruda

The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to Macchu Picchu, the Peruvian Inca city high in the Andes. Neruda's journey takes on all the symbolic qualities of a personal "venture into the interior" as the poem progresses, exploring both the roots of the poet's identity and the... (read more)

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Neruda... my hats down to you... this superb works of poetry... you clearly portrayed the one of the remaining legacy of Inca civilization in brilliant lyrical play of words... one of the best works of poetry for those who search a meaningful truth. (what truth??? just find it out...) Excerpt from the book: Someone waiting for me among the violins met with world like a buried tower sinking its spiral below the layered leaves color of raucous sulphur: and lower yet, in a vein of gold, like a...

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