" That poem's addressee is asked "Who writes your name in letters of smoke?" and "play[s] with the light of the universe."
A poem in this collection describes a time in which "cold stars heave up" and "the night fastens to all timetables." That poem's addressee is asked "Who writes your name in letters of smoke?" and "play[s] with the light of the universe." A poem in this collection states "Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness" and describes the addressee's foreign presence when she is "thinking, tangling shadows." This collection's narrator describes himself as "drunk with pines" in the ocean, and it begins by describing (*) "white hills, white thighs" in "Body of a Woman." The line "Love is so short, forgetting is so long" appears in its poem "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." This collection's finale laments "It is the hour of departure" and repeats "In you everything sank!" For 10 points, name this collection of 21 romantic poems with a sad conclusion by Pablo Neruda.
A poem in this collection describes a time in which "cold stars heave up" and "the night fastens to all timetables.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair [or Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada]