Publisher's Synopsis
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair . A year later, Neruda received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Embellished with 23 watercolor paintings by his friend and artist Mario Toral, this edition originally published in 1970. The memorable verses of the Chilean poet and the beauty of the watercolors compose a whole that perpetuates this book as a beautiful object where ideas and images dwell in a happy marriage.