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A hundred sonnets for Matilde Urrutia, arranged as morning, midday, evening and night.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Neruda's early masterwork of erotic longing and oceanic imagery.
The Captain's Verses
Love poems Neruda first published anonymously, written for Matilde Urrutia during their secret affair in exile.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Forty-four love sonnets tracing the poet's journey from invalid solitude to the astonishment of being loved, including the one that begins 'How do I love thee'.
Selected Poems
Poems from across Mistral's life, of lost love, motherhood and children, faith and the landscapes of Chile, in Ursula K. Le Guin's translation.
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's surviving fragments of desire, beauty, and loss.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
Platero and I
Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.
Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.