Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Just the Series: Penguin Classics (Spanish)   

Series and Publisher: Penguin Classics (Spanish)   

Annotation: Presents a bilingual edition of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet's collection of poems celebrating the beauty and nature of love and the passions, fears, pain, and anguish of human existence.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #5350372
Format: Paperback
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 1969
Edition Date: 2006 Release Date: 12/26/06
Pages: xv, 60 pages
ISBN: 0-14-303996-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-14-303996-9
Dewey: 861
LCCN: 2003067611
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Language: Spanish
Bilingual: Yes
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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-60).
Reading Level: 9.0
Interest Level: 9+

The Morning is Full

The morning is full of storm
in the heart of summer.

The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye,
the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands.

The numberless heart of the wind
beating above our loving silence.

Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees
like a language full of wars and songs.

Wind that bears off the dead leaves with a quick raid
and deflects the pulsing arrows of the birds.

Wind that topples her in a wave without spray
and substance without weight, and leaning fires.

Her mass of kisses breaks and sinks,
assailed in the door of the summer's wind.


Es La Mañana Llena

Es la mañana lleno de tempestad
en el corazón del verano.

Como pañuelos blancos de adiós las nubes,
el viento las sacude con sus viajeras manos.

Innumerable el corazón del viento
latiendo sobre nuestro silencio enamorado.

Zumbando entre los árboles, orquestal y divino,
como una lengua llena de guerras y de cantos.

Viento que lleva rápido robo la hojarasca
y desvia las flechas latientes de los parajos.

Viento que le derriba en ola sin espuma
y sustancia sin peso, y fuegos inclinados.

Se rompe y se submerge su volumen de besos
combatido en la puerta del viento del verano.



Excerpted from Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
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The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal

A Penguin Classic

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.

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