Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a collection of romantic Poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924.
Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971..
It remains one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years, with over a million copies sold worldwide.
This work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a collection of romantic Poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924