Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Likewise Book Reviews

"I loved reading his poems! His combination of using nature to describe love was beautiful. My favorite poem in this book was Tonight I write. "

"I’m not going to lie: my first and only formal introduction to Pablo Neruda was via How I Met Your Mother. I won’t even pretend to be embarrassed, because it’s my favorite show and quite frankly, my high school literature courses clearly failed me if that’s really the first time I had heard of a Nobel Prize winning poet. That being said, I was just talking to a book club member about how I never read poetry, so I figured why not start with one of the greatest? I’m still not totally sure if I “get” poetry, but the language (at least in the translation I read) was undeniably beautiful, and it makes me wish I understood enough Spanish to read these in their original form."