Description

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winners oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lovers 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 Nerudas most passionate verses.

Author: Pablo Neruda
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 5.90h x 3.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811217293
Language: English