The Poems of Octavio Paz
25 May 2018
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning,
bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize
laureate
The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz’s final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger—who has been translating Paz for over forty years—The Poems of Octavio Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinberger’s capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz’s own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.
Reviews
"Readers will marvel at Paz’s variety: haiku-like miniatures; the tempestuous
book-length poem ‘Sunstone’; fast-moving prose poems; abstract odes; extended descriptions of places in Mexico, India, Afghanistan, and Japan." — Publishers Weekly
"The question of who or what writes a poem, which agency creates which
pieces, even if none of the players is exactly automatic, takes us a long way
into Paz’s work, handsomely represented in this new collection." — Michael Wood, The London Review of Books
"The living conscience of his age. " — Mario Vargas Llosa
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“Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."—Publishers Weekly
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“Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."—Publishers Weekly
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“Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."—Publishers Weekly
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