This author wrote that "sometimes a piece of sun / burned like a coin in my hands," in a poem whose fifth stanza consists entirely of questions such as "Where were you then? /
This author wrote that "sometimes a piece of sun / burned like a coin in my hands," in a poem whose fifth stanza consists entirely of questions such as "Where were you then? / Who else was  there? / Saying what?" A poem by this author commands a "magnificent and fecund and magnetic slave" to "rise, lead and possess a creation / so rich in life that its flowers perish / and it is full of sadness." The speaker remembers "the mad coupling of hope and force / in which we merged and despaired" and laments: "How (*) horrible and brief was my desire of you!" in the final poem of a collection by this author translated by W.S. Merwin. The first poem in that collection by him begins: "Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, / you look like a world, lying in surrender." A poem by this author that refrains "it is the hour of departure" and "in you everything sank!" follows one that begins: "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name this author of Twenty One Love Poems and a Song of Despair, a poet from Chile.
This author wrote that "sometimes a piece of sun / burned like a coin in my hands," in a poem whose fifth stanza consists entirely of questions such as "Where were you then? /
Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo EliÃ©cer NeftalÃ­ Reyes Basoalto]