Source: Pablo Neruda, Arte de pájaros / Art of Birds (Barcelona: Lynx Editions, 2002), 53-55.
Image: Illustration by Aldo Chiappe, Toni Llobet, Jorge Rodríguez Mata, p. 53.
Here is the first stanza of Neruda's poem, Cóndor, with the original Spanish version on the left and Jack Schmitt's translation on the right:
En su ataúd de hierro vive
entre las piedras oxidadas
nutriéndose de herraduras.
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In its iron coffin it dwells
among the rusty stones
feeding on horseshoes.
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