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Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri–the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri s natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn t publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world–passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.