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