The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz. 1957-1987

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: New Directions
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: Reprint

Description: 669 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin Americas foremost poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone (Piedra de Sol)?here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger?made its appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of Days and Occasions (Días Hbiles), Homage and Desecrations (Homenaje y Profanaciones), Salamander (Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices (Solo a Dos Voces), East Slope (Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning (Hacza el Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems (Topoemas), Return (Vuelta), A Draft of Shadows (Pasado en Claro), Airborn (Hijos del Aire), and Pazs most recent collection, A Tree Within (Árbol Adentro).With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson.

ISBN: 9780811211734