Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)

The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject ofPablo Larran's acclaimed feature film Neruda starringGael Garca Bernal

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwins incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.

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