If you enjoy poetry, if you're prone to being knocked sideways by a simple group of words perfectly formed, expressing a thought or feeling - then you've got to stop what you're doing and get your hands on a copy of this book! This was a no-brainer for me, I LOVE Neruda, his twenty love poems rendered me speechless. But the poems in this collection are sublime. I guess so much is lost in translation (I'd nearly learn Spanish just to read Neruda's words exactly as he wrote them) but Mark Eisner, Alastair Reid et.al. have done outstanding work here. I have read some Neruda translations on-line that didn't have the same potency for me and I didn't understand why, until I read the same ones translated here, and once again I became spell-bound by Neruda's passion. You can't help but fall in love with him and with poetry in general. There are a handful of poems from Veinte Poemas - 'Leaning into the evenings I throw my sad nets to your ocean eyes' - beautiful. From Estravagario; Plenos Poderes and Memorial de Isla Negra which includes one of my all time favourites - Poetry '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' - magical! Honestly, if its possible to feel at home, to feel safe and secure and loved by a book, then this is the one, its like the great man is right there with you, helping you to inhabit every line.