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The Poems of Octavio Paz

Eliot Weinberger

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In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate , the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one , the living conscience of his age , a poet-prophet, a genius . Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz s poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger who has been translating Paz for over forty years with additional translations by several poet-luminaries. This edition includes many poems that have never before been translated into English, new translations based on Paz s final revisions, and a brilliant capsule biography of Paz by Weinberger, as well as notes on the poems in Paz s own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his life.

Language: English

Pages: 592

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: New Directions

Release: October 23, 2012

ISBN: 0811220435

ISBN 13: 9780811220439

The Poems of Octavio Paz

Eliot Weinberger

4.3/5 ( ratings)

In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate , the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one , the living conscience of his age , a poet-prophet, a genius . Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz s poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger who has been translating Paz for over forty years with additional translations by several poet-luminaries. This edition includes many poems that have never before been translated into English, new translations based on Paz s final revisions, and a brilliant capsule biography of Paz by Weinberger, as well as notes on the poems in Paz s own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his life.

Language: English

Pages: 592

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: New Directions

Release: October 23, 2012

ISBN: 0811220435

ISBN 13: 9780811220439

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