20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
4 of 20
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By Pablo Neruda
80 pages;
Chronicle Books
Published in 1924 by a then-unknown 19-year-old Chilean, these stunning
poems move seamlessly between exquisite expressions of intimacy and
almost unbearable suffering.
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
