Twenty love poems and a song of despair / Pablo Neruda ; translated by W.S. Merwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973.

Contributor:

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Standardized Title:

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Spanish--Translations into English.

Love poetry, Spanish.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

v, 63 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1993.

Summary:

First published in 1924, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada remains among Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical, these poems are based upon his own private associations. Their sensuous use of nature symbolism to celebrate love and to express grief has not been surpassed in the literature of our century. This edition offers the original Spanish text, with masterly translations by W.S. Merwin of facing pages.

Contents:

Body of a woman

Light wraps you

Ah vastness of pines

Morning is full

So that you will hear me

I remember you as you were

Leaning into the afternoons

White bee

Drunk with pines

We have lost even

Almost out of the sky

Your breast is enough

I have gone marking

Every day you play

I like for you to be still

In my sky at twilight

Thinking, tangling shadows

Here I love you

Girl lithe and tawny

Tonight I can write

Song of despair.

Notes:

Translation of: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada.

English and Spanish on opposite pages.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-63).

ISBN:

0140186484

9780140186482

OCLC:

27872744