twenty love poems and a song of hope

Imagine that Pablo Neruda wrote a second volume of his iconic Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair. Imagine Neruda did so after the torrent of feeling and imagery that was One Hundred Love Sonnets, revisiting his favorite theme one last time to express a deep appreciation for the love of his life. In this fantasized second version, his passions still burn but he recounts intense moments more tersely. This is the book, one hundred years after Neruda's original, that William Greenwood gives us in Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Hope.