Paperback. Pub the Date: February. 2008 Pages: 64-in Publisher: New Directions Publishing. Charged with sensuality and passion. Pablo Neruda s love poems are the most celeated of the Nobel Prize winner s oeuvre. Captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re- imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie Il Postino). Love Poems emaces the seascapes surrounding the poet and his love Matilde Urrutia. their waves and shores saturated with a new. yearning eroticism. And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body. bells shake the sky. and a hymn fills the world.