100 Love Sonnets / Sonnetos De Amor Neruda, Pablo; Chagoya, Enrique Illus.

Fine and as new. Pablo Neruda’s astonishing love poems are the most beloved and oft-quoted works of a towering figure in Latin American letters. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Neruda was revered throughout his lifetime as Chile’s “poet of the people” and is considered one of the 20th century’s most influential poets. Arion Press is honored to present the first fine press bilingual edition of his celebrated cycle of 100 sonnets, printed in English and Spanish on historic handmade paper in collaboration with four renowned contemporary Latinx artists. Poetry by Pablo Neruda. English translation by Stephen Tapscott. Introduction by Rigoberto Gonzalez. Artworks by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nicolás Guagnini, Candida Alvarez, and Enrique Chagoya. The Paper: In 1987, a renowned paper mill on a tributary of the River Thames, Hayle Mill, couched its final sheet of handmade paper. “Finale,” made of 100% flax, was the last paper made there by Barcham Green, which also crafted the bespoke paper on which Arion’s monumental Moby-Dick was printed in 1979. The paper used in this book, then, is historic: the last of its kind and of special significance to the Press.