A new version of Heights of Macchu Picchu, translated by Katie Lateef Jan and Dean Rader, authorized by the Neruda literary estate. 

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Pablo Neruda’s Alturas de Macchu Picchu is a poem that distrusts solitary authority even as it passes through a single voice, moving from the lyric “I” toward a collective utterance grounded in labor, history, and shared breath.

Producing the first collaborative translation of Alturas de Macchu Picchu is not incidental but consonant with its deepest claims. Attentive to Neruda’s unique lyric pressure, this new English version resists the tradition of singular, authoritative renderings by allowing meaning, rhythm, and decision to emerge through dialogue and negotiation.

In this way, the translation does not merely transmit Neruda’s poem but enacts its insistence that voice is a collective achievement, not a solitary possession.

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“Neruda is the greatest poet of the 20th century - in any language.” –Gabriel García Márquez

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Author: Pablo Neruda
Translators: Katie Lateef Jan, Dean Rader
Booklet, 38 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-234-02862-4
Release Date: March 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

$20 

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