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 re-imagining 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.
And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.
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