Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Nerudapremium off white cream pages Stitched binding Matte cover local premium copy Language English Dimensions 5. 5 x 8. 26 inches Genre Poetry 85 pages summary 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 with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,