Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
A nineteen-year-old student writes a woman's body as white hills and white thighs, as furrows waiting to be turned, then watches her recede through pine woods and twilight into a night in which he can write the saddest lines. A closing song sets her adrift among the wreckage of a harbour he has already given up. Sold in millions across the Spanish-speaking world and still the most widely read book of verse written in Spanish in the twentieth century.
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