"I proposed to myself a foundation for the odes going back to origins, from birth on. I wanted to rediscover many things already sung about, told and retold. My deliberate point of departure was to be like the child's, undertaking, while chewing on his pencil, the obligatory composition assigned on the sun, the blackboard, the clock or the human family." ? Pablo Neruda "These translations have the same fizziness, the same physical excitement that Pablo Neruda has." ? Alastair Reid A bilingual edition.