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

Collected Poems 1957-1987

by Octavio Paz

Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger

Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America’s foremost living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1957, 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 Hábiles), Homage and Desecrations (Homenaje y Profanaciones), Salamander (Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices (Solo a Dos Voces), East Slope (Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning (Hacia el Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems (Topoemas), Return (Vuelta), A Draft of Shadows (Pasado en Claro), Airborn (Hijos del Aire), and Paz’s most recent collection, A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro).

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Paperback (published April 1, 1991)

ISBN
9780811211734
Price US
26.95
Price CN
34

Clothbound (published April 1, 1991)

ISBN
9780811210379
Page Count
688

Octavio Paz

Twentieth-century Mexican Poet

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