http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:14:52 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/27/041452.php Terence ClarkeIn translating Neruda's poems, I was mindful of how each of his sonnets is an unruly flame, moving the way the emotions so often do.<br/> A few years ago, as an exercise to test how my studies in the Spanish language were going, I translated the 52nd sonnet from Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda&rsquo;s book 100 Sonnets of Love. One of his most popular works in Chile, this book is a declaration of intense, profound, and exceedingly sensuous love to Neruda&rsquo;s wife Matilde Urrutia.... Books72361@blogcritics.org Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:14:52 EST