Captain's Verses

by Pablo Neruda

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LOVE Neruda - I can never get enough! (

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aznstarlette | Nov 18, 2008 |

The greatest collection of love poems since Shakespeare's sonnets? I haven't come across a better one. "Your Hands," "Your Feet," "The Insect," and "The Queen" are a few of my favorites. Some of them do get a little steamy. (

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seanj | Jul 8, 2008 |

Bilingual volume of love poems. His lines speak for me. "My gentle one, rest/ your body in these lines that owe you/more than you give me through your touch,/ live in these words and repeat/ in them the sweetness and the fire..." (

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a211423 | Aug 21, 2006 |

The love poems are dleightful. One day I will paint a painting for each of these poems. (

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powerfrau | Apr 1, 2006 |

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0811215806, Paperback)

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual.

The Captain's Verses was first published anonymously in 1952, some years before Neruda married Matilde Urrutia - the one with "the fire / of an unchained meteor" - to whom he had addressed these poems of love, ecstasy, devotion, and fury. Our bilingual edition is seen by many as the most intimate and passionate volume of Neruda's love poetry, capturing all the erotic energy of a new love.

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