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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Happy Birthday Pablo Neruda : Ars Magnetica....

Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of the 20th century's greatest poets,
Pablo
Neruda. Here is a statement of purpose:

Ars Magnetica

From so much loving and journeying, books emerge.
And if they don't contain kisses and landscapes,
if they don't contain a man with his hands full,
if they don't contain a woman in every drop,
hunger, desire, anger, roads,
they are no use as a shield or a bell:
they have no eyes, and won't be able to open them,
they have the dead sound of precepts.

I loved the entangling of genitals,
and out of blood and love I carved my poems.
In hard earth I brought a rose to flower,
fought over by fire and dew.

That's how I could keep on singing.

Pablo Neruda
translated by Alastair Reid


From
Isla Negra: A Notebook

posted by Lyndon Walker at 12:29 pm

1 Comments:

Blogger Gaylene said...

Oh beautiful beautiful beautiful poem

Happy Birthday Pablo Neruda

with love and respect and awe, for this and so many other inspiring poems -

G

6:19 pm  

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LYNDON WALKER was born in Townsville North Queensland. He was educated in Psychology at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Masters in Psychoanalytic Studies from Deakin University in 2009. Lyndon practices as a Family and Individual Therapist at The Blue Door in Launceston Tasmania.. He has been published regularly in Australian literary journals over the last thirty years and occasionally overseas. He undertook a world reading tour of London, Paris, New York, Oxford and Princeton in 1994 and in 1996 was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He writes, poetry, short stories, novels, screenplays and academic works on Psychology and Psychoanalysis. He is currently shortlisted for the ACU Inaugural Poetry Prize in Australia and the Montreal International Poetry Prize in Canada which draws entries worldwide. He is a father of one adult daughter and lives alone in a house and garden in Launceston in Tasmania, Australia.

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