First published in 1924, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada remains among Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical, these poems are based upon his own private associations. Their sensuous use of nature symbolism to celebrate love and to express grief has not been surpassed in the literature of our century. This edition offers the original Spanish text, with masterly translations by W.S. Merwin on facing pages.

Spanish and English texts on facing pages so the poems can be read in either language while referring to the other. Presents a collection of seventy poems, from the thirteenth through twentieth centuries, from a variety of Spanish authors.