breathehopebooks 's review for:

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

3.0

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The poems are better in Spanish, which is unfortunate, since i am only minorly fluent in reading Spanish. And whoever translated these poems into English did a poor job, because the wording was too literal and the flow made very little sense, and i’d glance over to the original Spanish wording and think “now THAT makes more sense, sentence wise.”

My favorite poem was #20: “Puedo Escribir/ Tonight I Can Write”