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This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever
published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and
injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as
accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in
1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen, this
book is still adored the world over for being one of the most
memorable, intense and romantic works of poetry ever written. It is
a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new. The perfect
Valentine's Day present. INTRODUCED BY LEO BOIX 'The poems today
remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers' Carol Ann
Duffy The Vintage Classics Love Poems series brings together some
of the most sensual, heart-breaking and romantic poetry ever
written. Working in collaboration with Vintage Creative Director
Suzanne Dean this edition has been created by Spanish illustrator
Jesús Cisneros.
'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in
our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo
Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open'
Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic 'They are sailors from
another century, stalwart / captured on daguerrotype, casually
masculine, tender of heart.' In the middle of the last century, the
SS General Pueyrredon from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's
paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two
years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new homeland:
from taking his tea white - muy blanco - to plunging into
unfamiliar sensual worlds. So begins the poet's own journey,
arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. Ballad of a
Happy Immigrant tells of the life he makes there: a dazzling
collection of what it means to live, love and write between two
cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English
imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of
otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows
between 'loss / and a life / that starts anew.' *A Poetry Book
Society Wild Card Choice*
Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers is the first major anthology
of UK-based writers of Latin American heritage, a vibrant, new
vanguard in British literature. Representing a community that is
the eighth biggest in London, one of the fastest growing and best
educated, numbering over 200,000 nationally, the work featured here
includes fiction, poetry and theatre that exhibits the stunning
fluidity with which the writers inhabit their hybrid heritage. Of
the ten writers assembled here, some were born in Latin America and
came to the UK in their twenties, others are second generation and
have a British parent, but their work shares a fierceness, a
playfulness with language and a sly political edge. Playing with
form, genre, silence and coding, the resulting work channels and
celebrates the rich mythology and scope of Latin American
literature, but carries a uniquely British gene - a bit of banter,
a flash of restrained cheek. It is no accident that some of the
contributors are published and have growing international
reputations - for example, Brazilian-British novelist Luiza Sauma
(Penguin/Viking) and prize-winning Argentinian-British poet Leo
Boix (Chatto). The book also includes an interview with the
writer-actress Gael Le Cornec, exploring issues of identity,
multiple heritage and displacement.
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