margueritestjust 's review for:

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

3.0

emotional fast-paced

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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.