Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie <em>Il Postino</em>), <em>Love Poems</em> embraces the seascapes surrounding the poet and his love Matilde Urrutia, their waves and shores saturated with a new, yearning eroticism.<br /><br /><em>And when you appear<br />all the rivers sound<br />in my body, bells<br />shake the sky,<br />and a hymn fills the world.</em><br />        © 1973 by Neruda & Walsh <br />