Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz "an intellectual literary one-man band" for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers...

Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a "history of man". Unlike countless other histories that simply chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work explores the human heart, the meaning of human nature, and the duality that exists within all beings.

The Nobel Prize—winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire...

Dos poemas aéreos y resplandecientes de un gran escritor. Two airy, resplendent poems by a famous writer.

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses. This landmark bilingual edition gathers all the poetry the 1990 Nobel Laureate has published in book form since 1957, the year his long poem Sunstone, here translated anew, made its first appearance. Included are the complete texts of Days and Occasions, Solo for Two Voices, A Drift of Shadows, East Slope, Toward...

"Reunida por su autor en 1989, esta colección de poemas es una muestra amplia y representativa de la obra poética de Paz, imprescindible en el panorama de la literatura hispánica contemporánea: Libertad bajo palabra, Salamandra, Ladera Este, Vuelta, Pasado en claro y Árbol adentro agrupan a su vez la poesía publicada entre 1935 y 1987, y poemas escritos como intercambios con otros escritores. Se han agregado a esta edicín el discurso...