Cover image for Book of questions : selections = Libro de las preguntas : selecciones / Pablo Neruda ; illustrated by = ilustrado por Paloma Valdivia ; translated by = traducido por Sara Lissa Paulson.
TITLE:
Book of questions : selections = Libro de las preguntas : selecciones / Pablo Neruda ; illustrated by = ilustrado por Paloma Valdivia ; translated by = traducido por Sara Lissa Paulson.
Alternate Title:
Libro de las preguntas
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Brooklyn : Enchanted Lion Books,
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.
Additional Contributors:

Summary:
This edition is the first fully illustrated selection of Book of Questions: comprising 70 questions of the original 320, these poems, carefully woven together by theme and accompanying full-page illustrations, invite us to wonder at the natural world and the myriad mysteries it contains. "Book of Questions," written by beloved Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Neruda, was completed just months before his death in 1973, and is his last great work of poetry. By turns lyrical and cosmic, dreamlike and nonsensical, paradoxical and playful, each of these unanswerable questions asks us to set aside certainty and constraint and to enter into the vastness of the unknown. With riddles like "Where is the center of the sea? / Why don't waves break there?" and "What do you call a flower / that flits from bird to bird?", Neruda inspires us to unravel our assumptions and re-envision our relationship to nature. The only answer that is sure to arise from these questions is a closer observation of and reflection on the world in which we live, and a renewed sense of curiosity and wonder at our shared universe.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781592703227
Language Note:
Text in English and Spanish.