Author

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen has written a critical history of the English translations of Neruda’s poetry. His own translations appear in Ernesto Cardenal’s Zero Hour and Enrique Lihn’s The Dark Room, both published by New Directions. [1983]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Jun 01 1983

Neruda in English: The Controversy Over Translation Poetics

The poetry of Pablo Neruda has been appearing in English translation since the mid-thirties. By now, to be sure, he is one of the most widely translated of all modern poets; in fact, such a poem as “Walking Around,” originally published in 1935, has appeared in no fewer than twelve different English versions.