num_pages: 72
description: The Nobel Prize–winning poet’s most popular work  When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
language: English
title: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
titlecomplete: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
genres: Fiction, Poetry, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Romance, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Latin American Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 69029
publisher: Jonathan Cape