Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes by Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda Read Free Book Online Page A

Stanley Kunitz Prize and Guy Owen awards, and three Pushcart Prizes.
    Root’s academic career includes periods at Hunter College-CUNY, the University of Montana, Amherst College, Interlochen Arts Academy, New York University, and Distinguished Visiting Writer residencies at Pacific Lutheran and Wichita State Universities. Most recently he has served as the John C. Hodges visiting writer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He and his wife, poet Pamela Uschuk, live primarily in the West with a cadre of four-legged companions and enjoy traveling widely to teach and read from their works at home and abroad.
    As a child growing up where the Everglades met the Gulf of Mexico, Root often smuggled a radio into his bed nights so he could hear the late night Spanish broadcasts from Havana. “That music came from a part of the universe where people knew how to live their lives far more passionately than anyone I’d ever met. I was mesmerized and heartened by all that energy, all that poetry, as a kid. I still am.”

Acknowledgments
    M any of these translations first appeared in slightly different versions in the following periodicals and anthologies:
Anthology and Yearbook of Magazine Verse, Asheville Poetry Review, CutBank, Historical Mathematics Network Journal, International Virtual Institute for Historical Studies of Mathematics, Mississippi Mud, The Proud Word,
and
Telescope.
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Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda,
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