Charged with sensuality and passion Pablo Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winners oeuvre captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic reimagining of the world through the prism of a lovers body today our bodies became vast they grew to the edge of the world and rolled melting into a single drop of wax or meteor. Written on the paradisal island of Capri where Neruda took refuge in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new yearning eroticism.