Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Neruda, Pablo (Author); Merwin, W.S. (Translator); Garcia, Cristina (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780142437704
• ISBN10: 0142437700
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperadaremains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet’s most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.

Author Biography

Pablo Neruda (1904-û1973), the most renowned Latin American poet of his time, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

W. S. Merwin received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and his translations of classics such as The Poem of El Cid and The Song of Roland are standards.

Cristina Garc+¡a is the author of Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for a National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Body of a Woman	p. 3
The Light Wraps You	p. 5
Ah Vastness of Pines	p. 9
The Morning Is Full	p. 11
So that You Will Hear Me	p. 15
I Remember You As You Were	p. 21
Leaning into the Afternoons	p. 23
White Bee	p. 27
Drunk with Pines	p. 33
We Have Lost Even	p. 35
Almost out of the Sky	p. 39
Your Breast Is Enough	p. 43
I Have Gone Marking	p. 47
Every Day You Play	p. 53
I Like for You to Be Still	p. 57
In My at Twilight	p. 61
Thinking, Tangling Shadows	p. 65
Here I Love You	p. 71
Girl Lithe and Tawny	p. 75
Tonight I Can Write	p. 77
The Song of Despair	p. 83
Selected Bibliography	p. 91
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 93
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