Name: The Poems of Octavio Paz
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Author: Paz, Octavio ; Weinberger, Eliot ; Bishop, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780811227568

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Translated by

Elizabeth Bishop

Eliot Weinberger

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15.5x2.8 cm

Weight

0.79 kg.

ISBN13

9780811227568

Synopsis "The Poems of Octavio Paz"

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.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Mexico City, March 31, 1914-ibidem, April 19, 1998), registered at birth as Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 and the Cervantes Prize in 1981. He is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time.

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