This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen, this book is still adored the world over for being one of the most memorable, intense and romantic works of poetry ever written. It is a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new. The perfect Valentine's Day present. INTRODUCED BY LEO BOIX 'The poems today remain as…mehr
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen, this book is still adored the world over for being one of the most memorable, intense and romantic works of poetry ever written.
It is a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new. The perfect Valentine's Day present.
INTRODUCED BY LEO BOIX
'The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers' Carol Ann Duffy
The Vintage Classics Love Poems series brings together some of the most sensual, heart-breaking and romantic poetry ever written. Working in collaboration with Vintage Creative Director Suzanne Dean this edition has been created by Spanish illustrator Jesús Cisneros.
Pablo Neruda (Author) Born Neftal-Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in southern Chile in 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. His first book, Crepusculario ('Twilight') was published in 1923. The following year, he published Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada ('Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'), which turned him into a celebrity. In 1927 he began his long career as a diplomat, serving as Chilean consul in numerous places including Burma, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico and France. He was elected to the Chilean Senate in 1943 but later expelled for being a Communist. In 1952 the government withdrew the order to arrest leftist writers and political figures, and Neruda returned to Chile. For the next twenty-one years, he continued a career that integrated private and public concerns and became known as the people's poet. During this time, Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died of leukaemia in Santiago, Chile in 1973. Leo Boix (Introducer) Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. He is a recent fellow of The Complete Works, a national mentoring programme aimed at poets from minority backgrounds, which included poets such as Kayo Chingonyi, Sarah Howe and Warsan Shire, among others. His poems have been included in many anthologies, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe), The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021 (Eyewear Publishing) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye), and have appeared in POETRY, PN Review, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Boix is co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council England national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is a board member of Magma Poetry, co-editor of its Resistencia issue showcasing the best Latinx writing, and an advisory board member of the Poetry Translation Centre in London. He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018 and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairIntroduction I. Body of a Woman II. The Light Wraps You III. Ah Vastness of Pines IV. The Morning Is Full V. So that You Will Hear Me VI. I Remember You As You Were VII. Leaning into the Afternoons VIII. White Bee IX. Drunk with Pines X. We Have Lost Even XI. Almost out of the Sky XII. Your Breast Is Enough XIII. I Have Gone Marking XIV. Every Day You Play XV. I Like for You to Be Still XVI. In My Sky at Twilight XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows XVIII. Here I Love You XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny XX. Tonight I Can Write The Song of Despair Selected Bibliography Suggestions for Further Reading
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairIntroduction I. Body of a Woman II. The Light Wraps You III. Ah Vastness of Pines IV. The Morning Is Full V. So that You Will Hear Me VI. I Remember You As You Were VII. Leaning into the Afternoons VIII. White Bee IX. Drunk with Pines X. We Have Lost Even XI. Almost out of the Sky XII. Your Breast Is Enough XIII. I Have Gone Marking XIV. Every Day You Play XV. I Like for You to Be Still XVI. In My Sky at Twilight XVII. Thinking, Tangling Shadows XVIII. Here I Love You XIX. Girl Lithe and Tawny XX. Tonight I Can Write The Song of Despair Selected Bibliography Suggestions for Further Reading
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