Pablo Neruda

A lavishly designed, bilingual gift edition of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's romantic works is comprised of pieces mostly written on the island of Capri, where he found inspiration in its idyllic landscapes and his relationship with Matilde Urrutia. Original.

Love Poems

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

romey

So cute and so much love like SO MUCH. Finished this in an hour since there weren’t that many pages anyway :)

When I initially read the book as a single person, a lot of poems were confusing. I truthfully yearned to feel that way about someone or have someone feel that way about me. I thought, maybe I can read this again when I get married and it’ll be more relatable. A couple years later, reading it once again in a serious relationship, it has become a staple poetry book I suggest for those who want to know it feels like to admire someone so much you see them and feel them in everything. 

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Kholoud Ayman

"Years of yours that I should have felt growing near me like clusters until you had seen how the sun and the earth had destined you for my hands of stone, until grape by grape you had made the wine sing in my veins. The wind or the horse swerving were able to make me pass through your childhood, you have seen the same sky each day, the same dark winter mud,
the endless branching of the plum trees and their dark-purple sweetness. Only a few miles of night, the drenched distances of the country dawn, a handful of earth separated us, the transparent walls that we did not cross, so that life, afterward, could put all the seas and the earth between us, and we could come together in spite of space, step by step seeking each other, from one ocean to another, until I saw that the sky was aflame and your hair was flying in the light and you came to my kisses with the fire of an unchained meteor and as you melted in my blood, the sweetness of the wild plum of our childhood I received in my mouth, and I clutched you to my breast as if I were regaining earth and life."

anderson elizabeth

almost 1 year later she *finally* finished it

Melody Izard

In English and Spanish. Sweet words of love. Lots of picking up and carrying around and feet worship.

Fiona Coffey

This little book is just perfect. It's beautiful, it's just the right size, and it contains poems by Pablo Neruda. Poetry can be intimidating to read sometimes, but this book isn't at all. It's great to just have out and pick up whenever you feel like it to read a few poems. Love it.

Samuel Tenenbaum

Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such unsentimental directness and sensual precision as Pablo Neruda. In this poetry, too, he is at his most accessible, the language of his odes and lyrics refined to the point at which it achieves what one critic has called 'the naturalness of song.' This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing career, from the famous early collection, Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair of 1924 to key works of his maturity like Elemental Odes from 1954 and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra. These ten poems formed the subtext for the well-known film Il Postino which was based on an apocryphal episode in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate. They reveal why many believe that Neruda was the finest love poet of the century.

20 Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperanda

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debre

Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such un-sentimental directness and sensual precision. Here, too, we find Neruda at his most accessible, the language of his odes and lyrics refined to the point at which it achieves, in critic Jean Franco's words, "the naturalness of song". This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing life, from the famous early collection Twenty Love Songs & a Song of Despair (1924) to the key works of his maturity, Residence on Earth (1935), Elemental Odes (1954) and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra (1964). It offers an enticing glimpse of one of modern poetry's greatest masters.

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