Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
(Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
Pablo Neruda - Author
W.S. Merwin - Translator
Cristina Garcia - Introduction by
A beautifully packaged edition from "the greatest poet of the twentieth centuryin any language (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains 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.
The Morning is Full The morning is full of storm The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye, The numberless heart of the wind Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees Wind that bears off the dead leaves with a quick raid Wind that topples her in a wave without spray Her mass of kisses breaks and sinks, Es La Mañana Llena Es la mañana lleno de tempestad Como pañuelos blancos de adiós las nubes, Innumerable el corazón del viento Zumbando entre los árboles, orquestal y divino, Viento que lleva rápido robo la hojarasca Viento que le derriba en ola sin espuma Se rompe y se submerge su volumen de besos 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 |


