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    Octavio Paz

    Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

    Octavio Paz

    Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

    Books by Octavio Paz

    • The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, Charles Tomlinson

      Bilingual Edition, Paperback, 1991

      “Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."—Publishers Weekly

    • The Poems of Octavio Paz

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson

      Paperback, 2018

      Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate

    • The Poems of Octavio Paz

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson

      E Book, 2018

      Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate

    • Figures & Figurations

      Marie José Paz, Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Eliot Weinberger

      Hardback, 2002

    • Configurations: Poetry

      Octavio Paz

      Paperback, 1971

      Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate, has won distinction as an anthropologist, philosopher and critic of art and literature. But it is as a poet that he is most celebrated.

    • A Tale of Two Gardens

      Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 1997

      A Tale of Two Gardens collects the poetry from over 40 years of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's many and various commitments to India—as Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and above...

    • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

      Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz

      Paperback, 2016

      A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

    • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

      Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz

      E Book, 2016

      A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

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