NEW YORK — A nonprofit publisher in Port Townsend has acquired rights to the late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s first collection of poems, which has never been translated in English, and has launched a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign to help get it released.
Copper Canyon Press announced Monday that it plans to release Neruda’s “Crepusculario” in 2017.
The Chilean poet was 19 when he self-published the book in 1923, and allegedly sold his father’s gold watch to raise money.
“Crepusculario” is a variation of the Spanish word for twilight, crepusculo, and has been referred to as “Book of Twilight” or “Twilight Book.”
Copper Canyon already plans to publish a collection of recently discovered Neruda poems, “Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda,” in 2016.
Associated Press
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