The Poems of Octavio Paz

ISBN: 0811227561

Author: Paz, Octavio

Condition: Used

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 Pazs 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 Pazs 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 Weinbergers capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Pazs own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.