A poem by this poet opens, “I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire.” The speaker describes “Dark river beds” and says, “I was lonely as a tunnel” in a poem by this author whose addressee is told, “when you surrender, you stretch out like the world.” This poet describes “burying lamps” in “deep solitude” in a poem about “Thinking, tangling shadows. ” In a poem in the same collection by this poet, which was translated by (*) W.S. Merwin, the speaker uses “‘The night is starry / and the stars are blue and shiver’” as an example of the title phrases. A line about the title figure’s “white hills, white thighs” opens this author’s poem “Body of a Woman.” In a poem by this author, the speaker states, “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” and repeats, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. ■END■
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
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