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Copyright © 1971, 1993 by Robert Bly

Copyright © 1962, 1967 by the Sixties Press

Spanish texts copyright 1924, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958 by Pablo Neruda

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines in which some of these translations have appeared: The London Magazine, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Sixties, The University of Michigan Quarterly, Tri-Quarterly, Dragonfly, The Greenfield Review, Transpacific, Modern Occasions, and Crazy Horse.

The translators would like to thank Hardie St. Martin for his generous criticism of these translations in manuscript.

The drawings of Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo were done specially for the original Sixties Press editions by the Spanish artist Zamorano.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Neruda and Vallejo : selected poems / edited and a new preface by
Robert Bly ; translations by Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright.
p.    cm.
ISBN 0-8070-6489-0 eISBN 978-0-8070-9679-6
1. Neruda, Pablo, 1904–1973—Translations into English.
2. Vallejo, César, 1892–1938—Translations into English. I. Bly,
Robert. II. Knoepfle, John. III. Wright, James Arlington, 1927–
IV. Neruda, Pablo, 1904–1973. Poems. English & Spanish.
Selections. 1993. V. Vallejo, César, 1892–1938. Selections.
English & Spanish. 1993.
PQ8097.N4A6 1993
861—dc20 93–10400