Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)

The Nobel Prize?winning poet?s most popular work

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. Merwin?s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world. more

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Posted: Jul-20-2009

Not your typical poetry reader.

Loved it! Unusual considering I'm not usually fond of poetry. Like a good yoga pose, the content is emotionally arousing. I think something may be lost in translation and I therefore chose the original Spanish version of the book.

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Posted: May-16-2009

Very romantic and sensual!

Neruda wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair with the passion of his youth. These are romantic poems that are full of erotic passion and longing. The 20 love poems describe remembered love affairs with two women, a girl from the poet's native town of Temuco and a classmate at the...

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Posted: Oct-24-2007

Seasons of Love

"Clasping my arms like a climbing plantthe leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace. Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning.Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul."(from "I Remember You As You Were")After watching "The Postman" I became interested in purchasing my first...

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Posted: Jan-17-2007

Wonderful!

This book was very beneficial as I translated some of the poems myself. It allowed me to compare differences in the two translations and choose which was most accurate.

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Posted: Jan-09-2007

Love poems for all of us

Our Spanish is weak, mine much weaker than hers, but the language speaks, the tone of the language sings, as we sit on a beach and share these beatiful poems, in words we understand, and sounds we listen to.

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Posted: Aug-15-2006

One of my favorite writers

In this duel language edition, the voice is soft, sincere, and refreshing. His language borders on a passion that seems to rouse the senses like skydiving, or waiting for first rain. I recommend this book and all his books to the poetry reader.

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Posted: Apr-07-2006

the most romantic book of love poems ever written

perhaps this is the most romantic and most beautiful book of love poems ever written. every word, every stanza is so easily read, so quickly understood, like an arrow to the heard. give this gift to your lover and they will never forget it.

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Posted: Jul-30-2004

Beautiful, wrenching poetry

A beautiful gift for a lover. Perfect Valentine's Day gift or some other romantic moment. Draw a bath for them, light a candle, pour some wine, and sit and read them some of these often torrid poems. You will thank me later! MUCH later!

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Posted: Jul-26-2004

Eloquent & beautiful

His first book may well be his very best. I believe he was only 19 when he wrote these poems. Each one is more moving than the last. Body of a Woman is amazing. Anyone who deems their self a true romantic must own this book...read it aloud to someone you love...or to someone you want to love.

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Posted: Jul-15-2004

An essential book for Pablo lovers or poetry lovers

If you have ever wanted to memorize love poems to recite to your beloved this is the book. No other poet so beautifully describes a woman's body or the complexities involved with a pair of lover's relationship.

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