Dimensions
130 x 199 x 5mm
Poems from the film 'Il Postino'
The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film 'Il Postino' a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest poet of the century. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such unsentimental directness and sensual precision. Here, too, we find Neruda at his most accessible, the language of his odes and lyrics refined to the point at which it achieves the naturalness of song.
This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing life. It offers an enticing glimpse of one of modern poetry's greatest masters.
