A translation of Pablo Neruda's early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addressed to hope and to gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and to artichokes. Reflecting the lucent, candid vitality driving Neruda's charming accounts, these poems celebrate things big and the small: even lamentations become commemorations.
Con las Odas elementales Neruda logro una de las realizaciones mas ambiciosas de toda su obra y de la poesi?a universal. La visio?n co?smica y las energias de la naturaleza se pacifican y se hacen armoniosas. El objeto individual y cotidiano se incorpora a la plenitud de las magnas realidades: el oce?ano, la tierra, el amor.