"In the canon of great Latin poets and writers, Octavio Paz (1914-1998) is no slouch. He shares the throne with the likes of Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Manoel de Barros, and Jorge Luis Borges - influenced by Spanish writers including Gerardo Diego, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Antonio Machado. Like his contemporaries, his poetry and thought are multifaceted, and include (but certainly not limited to) hints of Marxism, surrealism, existentialism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This book, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, reflects his diversity of thought, strength of intellect, and his mastery of letters. For those who treasure Latin poetry, this book will be well worth your time."
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date 1991-04
Section Poetry / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Michael R.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780811211734
“Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."―Publishers Weekly
Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone (Piedra de Sol)―here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger―made its appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of Days and Occasions (Días Hábiles), Homage and Desecrations (Homenaje y Profanaciones), Salamander (Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices (Solo a Dos Voces), East Slope (Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning (Hacza el Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems (Topoemas), Return (Vuelta), A Draft of Shadows (Pasado en Claro), Airborn (Hijos del Aire), and Paz's most recent collection, A Tree Within (Árbol Adentro).
With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson.
