NMLP P-023925 · 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

Neruda specifically requested an unusually large, square format that "wasted" paper, so the first edition is a square 8vo issued in original printed paper wrappers; because it is a fragile softcover, the presence of intact original printed wrappers (surviving copies are often preserved inside a later custom binding or chemise) is the central collecting point

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-023925 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-023925, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).