Longlist, 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ’45—which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale—Vilariño is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets. Vilariño and Onetti’s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas del Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions. THE WITNESS I don’t ask you for anything don’t accept anything from you. It’s enough that you are in the world that you know I am in the world that you might be To me, you might be witness judge and god. If not what is it for.

Este libro es una declaración de amor, un dolor abierto al desamor, el desnudar el alma y dejar al descubierto todos y cada uno de los sentimientos.

The simplicity of a human heart is to love. The most perfect virtue a creature can have is love. A simple heart in love obtains love in return. When one loves, one loves naturally, even if one can't say to the lover, "I love you." Blessed are those who take love to perfection, who do not ask to be loved, but love in order to continue loving. Honest loving souls, you are about to penetrate into the sanctuary of the sublime sciences of love. The sanctuary in which the deepest, passionate, and simple poems of love are kept.

El amor es más que un sentimiento, el amor es la causa y el efecto, y es por lo tanto la esencia de la vida. "El amor genuino no lastima y es un hermoso sentimiento por medio del cual podemos motivarnos a alcanzar nuestras metas"

Longlist, 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of ’45—which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale—Vilariño is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets. Vilariño and Onetti’s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas del Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions. THE WITNESS I don’t ask you for anything don’t accept anything from you. It’s enough that you are in the world that you know I am in the world that you might be To me, you might be witness judge and god. If not what is it for.

Coleccion de Oro de los autores mas grandes de todos los tiempos. Este libro es una seleccion de las mas bellas poesias de amor de todos los tiempos. Una extensa recopilacion de obras de reconocidos autores tanto latinoamericanos como españoles. Incluyendo a Pablo Neruda, Amado Nervo, Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, Gustavo A. Bécquer, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado y Mario Benedetti, entre muchos otros. Esta extraordinaria colección de 200 POEMAS DE AMOR no solo es para los amantes de la poesía, sino también para ser obsequiado por ti a esa persona que amas. Su propósito es que lo dediques y ese romántico gesto enardezca tu relación. Si eso les trae dicha, entonces nuestra obra habrá cumplido su cometido. Pues sin lugar a duda, el amor, respeto y comprensión en pareja es lo más hermoso y valioso del mundo.