100 Love Sonnets of Pablo Neruda

Wonderful translations. I loved this book!

Beautiful. Takes my breath away.

Chris Jansen groks Neruda's passionate love because he loves his beloved with the same ecstatic joy! Were Neruda alive I believe he would praise some of these versions as even better than the original.Thanks Chris for daring to take these poems out of their cages much as Bly invited Barks to free Rumi.You believe in love, Chris...and your 100 Love Sonnets of Pablo Neruda will inspire your readers to become better loving men and women.

What Coleman Barks has done for Rumi--releasing the poems from their academic cages--Chris Jansen has done for Pablo Neruda. I have read and taught Neruda for many years and can find no better version of his love sonnets than these. It is as simple as that. This collection should be read by every poet, student, teacher... or rather, anyone who loves.

Nothing I could write could come close to the transcendent beauty of Neruda's words. Simply stunning.