by Pablo Neruda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140585902
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«Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair» is Pablo Neruda's poetry collection, published by Penguin in hardback (72 pages, in English).
The book brings together twenty love poems and a song of despair. In them, the poetic voice sings to the beloved and to the landscape, with a tone ranging from desire to nostalgia. Its emotional intensity has made this work a classic.
The work was first published in 1924 with the original Spanish title «Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada».
For readers of love poetry and classics of Latin American literature.
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
