Love Poems

Author: Pablo Neruda; Donald Walsh (Translator)

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  • : $22.50 AUD
  • : 9780811217293
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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  • : October 2008
  • : 153mm X 104mm X 8mm
  • : United States
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  • : Pablo Neruda; Donald Walsh (Translator)
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780811217293
9780811217293

Description

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"


Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery reimagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie Il Postino), Love Poems embraces the seascapes surrounding the poet and his love, Matilde Urrutia, their waves and shores saturated with a new, yearning eroticism.

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Nobel Laureate

Reviews

"One of the greatest major poets of the twentieth century. (The New York Times Book Review)" "It is difficult to find an analogue for the sustained passion and gentleness communicated in this absolutely stunning apotheosis of the poetry of sexual love...Matilde Urrutia deserves to enter history in the company of Petrarch's Laura and Dante's Beatrice.(Library Journal)"

Author description

Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile. He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile.