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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 love poet of the century. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such un-sentimental 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, in critic Jean Franco's words, "the naturalness of song". This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing life, from the famous early collection Twenty Love Songs & a Song of Despair (1924) to the key works of his maturity, Residence on Earth (1935), Elemental Odes (1954) and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra (1964). It offers an enticing glimpse of one of modern poetry's greatest masters.

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Romantic and Sensual
 
Review Date: February 4, 2001
Reviewer: Judith E. Pavluvcik, Dreaming of the beach in Hawaii, but living in the reality of the desert in Arizona!!
Love, Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda is a romantic short collection by one of the most sensual and romantic poets I have ever read. Neruda draws all of your senses into his world and you want to stay there, never to leave. One wants to find the beauty as he paints it for you, the reader. His wife is the muse of most of his love sonnets. As Neruda says, "Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

I recommend this incredible poet to all who love to read poetry and to those who long to find their love and especially to those who have that love in their life. Neruda's romance will stir your heart and have you soaring.

Read it with your significant other and the emotions will carry you both up and away. Neruda's poems are powerful and their beauty sears into your heart with his words echoing long after. These poems were featured in the movie, The Postman. You cannot help feeing affected by the power of Neruda. He has to be one of THE most powerful masters of the written word.

After you read the book, listen to the CD & watch the film!
 
Review Date: January 31, 1999
Reviewer: arnied@usa.net, Philippines
I never read Neruda before. I was opened up to his world through the movie "Il Postino," a bittersweet, funny fictitious movie about Neruda and an aspiring poet (a postman). He recited poems there and....I had to watch it again and again. Then, I discovered the CD with all these name stars reading his poems: Sting, Andy Garcia, madonna, Ralph Fiennes. As if that wasn't enough, I found this book! Ahhhhh! Romantic bliss on those dreamy nights with your signficant other. Believe me, if you want to sweep me off my feet (and I believe my female friends would all agree), send a girl this book, and you'll get her attention (and later, maybe her heart).
absolutely beautiful
 
Review Date: May 19, 1999
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I found this book after watching Il Postino and thought it would be a great way to work on my Spanish since it's bilingual. These poems are so touching and strong. I recommend this to everyone who can appreciate the beauty of love and the flow of Neruda's poetry.
Neruda grabs you and won't let you go!
 
Review Date: May 19, 1998
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I highly recommend Pablo Neruda's Love: Ten Poems to everyone. In this piece, Neruda exposes his skill of using description to create beautiful language. Love: Ten Poems exemplifies language at it's best. In this book, Neruda brings life to his words and makes you feel more alive than ever. Pablo Neruda's Love: Ten Poems kidnaps its readers and takes them hostage to another world. In this dream world, Neruda uses unique descriptives to pull your elusive emotions from your chest and lay them out for you to stare upon. Before reading Love: Ten Poems, I had never seen love in "moon lines", watched hope "travel in the wind", or gazed upon the despair of a "shattered night, all between two covers of a book. Pablo Neruda's Love: Ten Poems is a must read for all. By depicting emotions with flowing words, Neruda brings timeless enjoyment to his readers. If you want to experiance Language at its best I highly recommend reading Pablo Neruda's Love: Ten Poems.
May Your Heart Break Loose On the Wind
 
Review Date: August 18, 2006
Reviewer: John P. Morgan, Beautiful San Dimas, CA
POETRY by Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age...Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

When I first read this poem, something within me blossomed. It was as if Neruda had found a way to pry open my soul and let the True Light, the True Love, and the True Life of my life to finally come forth; naked, unashamed, and gloriously beautiful.

Even though this book only contains ten little poems, you will get so much enjoyment out of each and every one of them. I even gave a copy of this book to someone whose primary reading interests were that of Mad Magazine and the classifieds and he said he never imagined that reading could be so sensual and yet so soulful.

May your heart and soul break wide open and may the radiant jewels that are within come forth for all to see.

Peace and blessings...

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