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Twenty love poems, and, A song of despair

by Pablo Neruda, W. S. Merwin

This 1924 collection of Spanish poetry juxtaposes youthful passion and eroticism with themes of grief and desolation. The poems employ simple vocabulary and natural imagery influenced by modernism and expressionism.

Accession 17486 ISBN 0224012061 Publisher Jonathan Cape
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