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Love poems Neruda first published anonymously, written for Matilde Urrutia during their secret affair in exile.
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Neruda's early masterwork of erotic longing and oceanic imagery.
100 Love Sonnets
A hundred sonnets for Matilde Urrutia, arranged as morning, midday, evening and night.
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'.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's surviving fragments of desire, beauty, and loss.
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.
L'Arrabbiata
On the coast near Sorrento, Laurella, a proud young woman who has sworn never to marry, is rowed across to Capri by Antonino, a boatman who has loved her from afar.
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.
Crush
Poems of desperate wanting: two bodies, a car crash, a war, desire so intense it becomes hard to tell from destruction.
Madwomen
Mistral's late sequence of poems of women on the edge, the abandoned, the obsessed, the dispossessed, among them The Fugitive, The Unbeliever and The Other.
Stranger Music
Cohen's own selection from forty years of poems and song lyrics, from the early Montreal books to the songs of I'm Your Man and The Future, full of desire, prayer and self-mocking wit.
Dark Avenues
Bunin's late stories of love, almost all of it brief, secret or ruined, set in the Russia of country estates, inns and railway stations he had lost.