I have never read Pablo Neruda before. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair did not start out well for me. I did not like any, until I got to XVIII ("Here I Love You / Aqui Te Amo") and XX ("Tonight I Can Write / Puedo Escribir"). Those two were acceptable. Other than that, I found them mostly to be too obscure and weird -- which is exactly the reason I don't like most poetry. (Sweeping statement? Yes. But often true.)
What this did get me, though, was a very quick check mark on my 2021 Reading Challenge. This was by far the shortest of all the selections for the year, and it was nice to make such quick work of one of them!
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