Reviews - Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair

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Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair

I didn't really feel any great emotional connection to the text. I got the feeling while I was reading it that I might have gotten more out of it by reading it in the original Spanish, but my Spanish is rudimentary at best. Certainly more erotic than I had thought it was going to be, but that's not a judgement on the poetry itself. I only found maybe two poems are so particularly noteworthy at least in terms of actually remembering them - and I am getting around to this review quite a while after reading so take some of this with a grain of salt. But I'm not much interested in reading more of his work, to be honest.

amrabdelbaset's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

bubos212's review against another edition

I wish somebody loved me enough to compose a volume of romantic/erotic poems about me.

renuoberman's review against another edition

3.0

al principio no estaba ✨vibrando✨ tanto con el libro. 2 poemas después no pude parar y me enamoré por completo de las metáforas que usó Neruda en este poemario.