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
.