Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By Pablo Neruda
Translated by W.S. Merwin
Foreword by Stephen Dobyns
Illustrations by Jan Thompson Dicks

5-1/4 x 7-1 /4 in; 80 pp ; 10 Full-Color Illustrations
Hardcover
Published in October, 1993
ISBN 0811803201
ISBN13 9780811803205
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair -- Unequalled in their grace, earthiness, and expression of sensual longing, the love poems of Pablo Neruda are perhaps the most lyrically written and widely read of this century. A perennial best-seller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is now offered for the first time in a beautiful gift edition. A superb translation by W.S. Merwin and striking, richly colored illustrations bring the poems of this classic volume vividly to life, making it an eloquent, evocative gift for lovers and poetry lovers everywhere.

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), was a Nobel Prize-winner, one of his country's most important statesmen and the most influential, prolific Spanish language poet of his generation.

Jan Thompson Dicks is the illustrator of The House That Crack Built, published by Chronicle Books in 1992 to extraordinary critical acclaim. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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