NMLP P-023924 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)

Pablo Neruda · Editorial Nascimento (Santiago, Chile) · 1924

The true first is the original-language Spanish edition, printed by Editorial Nascimento in Santiago in June 1924, when Neruda was 19 — it was his SECOND book (after Crepusculario, 1923), a point sellers who call it his "first book" get wrong

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-023924 for "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)" by Pablo Neruda (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023924, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).