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Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War, to San Francisco and New York in the early 1...

Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem "that definitively established Paz as a major international figure" (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again), Sunstone is a tour de force of momentum. It takes as its structural basis the circular Aztec calendar, which measured the synodic period of the planet V...

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it "modern, " and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.

The renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this important anthology--the first of its kind in English translation--with a keen sense of what is both representative and universal in Mexican poetry. His informative introduction places the thirty-five selected poets within a literary and historical context that spans four centuries (1521-1910). This accomplished translation is the work of the young Samuel Beckett, just out of Trin...

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The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey thro...

For six years Octavio Paz served as Mexico's ambassador to India--an experience that forever changed his life. Now, in Paz's most personal work of prose to date, the Nobel Prize Laureate brings his poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on a vast and extraordinary subject: the culture, landscape, and essence of India.

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A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems is the most recent collection of the work of Mexico's leading poet and essayist, Octavio Paz. The first section of poems, from Ladera este (East Slope, 1969), reflects some of Paz's experiences as his country's ambassador to India (1962-68). Following stays in England, France, and the United States, he returned to Mexico in 1971, reacting to the urban sprawl and violence of Mexico City with the four long poem...

The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, Eagle or Sun? (Aguila o Sol?) exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, Eagle or Sun? has as its mythopoeic "place" Mexico--a country caught up in its pre-Columbian past, the world of modern imperialism, and an apocalyptic future foretold by the Aztec calendar. Indeed, three personae of the book--the goddess Itzapaplot...

In neun Kapiteln entwickelt Paz eine kleine Kulturgeschichte der Liebe, stellt Fragen nach den Bedingungen von Liebe und von Erotik, nach der Funktion der Vorstellungskraft bei der Transformation der Sexualität in Erotik, nach der personalen Freiheit in der freiwilligen Knechtschaft der Liebe. Dabei leitet ihn - neben Wißbegierde - ein Gedanke der Sorge: Sind wir gegen Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts womöglich dabei, eben das zu verspielen oder viel...

»Wir sind weder Griechen noch Chinesen noch Araber, auch können wir nicht sagen, daß wir die romanische oder die byzantinische Skulptur völlig verstehen. Wir sind dazu verurteilt, zu übersetzen, und jede unserer Übersetzungen, handle es sich um die gotische oder um die ägyptische Kunst, ist eine Metapher, eine Verwandlung des Originals.« Diese Arbeit der Übersetzung, eine Zwiesprache zwischen dem Werk und dem Betrachter, unternimmt Octavio Paz...