Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. ... Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, means Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which was edited in June, 1924.He said that "this book was a painful book that contains one of his most tormented adolescent passions, mixed with some of the nature of the southern part of his country. ... The Twenty Poems is about the romance in...

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