Superb. Neruda is unrivalled as a poet and as a love poet unsurpassed. Stephen Tapscott's translations are about as good as it gets. This book will appeal to a world of hearts, souls and lovers. I read something from it most mornings and was even inspired to write my own sonnet about Neruda's impact on my little life. It's

Breakfast With Neruda
By Tracy Gaughan

Open on my breakfast table, your book
of Sonnets. They bear the aroma of warm grain
from the Black Island, a measure of romance
and oats, milled with the buhrstone of your tongue.

Spoons of sand in an ocean of moon; I draw in
the perfumes of your labour: earth, chaff, threshing
de-hulling; sweet carnal desires ripening
under the hot Chilean sun.

You transform this cereal ritual
Into an impassioned banquet of words
From your heart to my mouth - before sonorous steel
Pilfers me from our constellation of breath.

I return each morning like thirst, unquenchable.
Refill my empty nets with your shoal of syllable.