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This book, which contains ten poems by Pablo Neruda, is used in the film Il Postino (The Postman) and read by several Hollywood celebrities on its soundtrack. I remember listening to it with my best friend during our college days and gushing over how brilliantly Neruda had penned poems about passionate love.

My favorite poem of his will always be , which is included in this collection, although this verse from “Poetry�� (also in this book) also often gets to me every time I come across it:

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.

A lovely quick read on a sultry afternoon.