NERUDA, PABLO
Pablo Neruda is one of the worlds great poets, and Copper Canyon Press has long been dedicated to publishing translations of his work in bilingual editions.The Hands of Dayat long last translated into English in its entiretypronounces Nerudas desire to take part in the great human making of the day. Moved by the guilt of never having worked with his hands, Neruda opens with the despairing confession, Why did I not make a broom? / Why was I given hands at all? The themes of hands and work grow in significance as Neruda celebrates the carpenters, longshoremen, blacksmiths, and bakersthose laborers he admires mostand shares his exuberant adoration for the earth and the people upon it.