The Poems of Octavio Paz

Resumen del libro

In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate (Chicago Tribune), the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one (Nadine Gordimer), the living conscience of his age (Mario Vargas Llosa), a poet-prophet, a genius (Harold Bloom). Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger who has been translating Paz for over forty years with additional translations by several poet-luminaries. This edition includes many poems that have never been translated into English before, new translations based on Paz's final revisions, and a brilliant capsule biography of Paz by Weinberger, as well as notes on the poems in Paz's own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his life.

Biografía del autor

Premio Cervantes en 1981 y Premio Nobel en 1990, es una de las figuras capitales de la literatura contemporánea. Su poesía " reunida precedentemente en Libertad bajo palabra (1958), a la que siguieron Salamandra (1962), Ladera Este (1969), Vuelta (Seix Barral, 1976) y Árbol adentro (Seix Barral, 1987)" se recoge en el volumen Obra poética 1935-1988 (Seix Barral, 1990). No menor en importancia y extensión es su obra ensayística, que comprende los siguientes títulos: El laberinto de la soledad (1950), El arco y la lira (1956), Las peras del olmo (1957; Seix Barral, 1971), Cuadrivio (1965; Seix Barral, 1991), Puertas al campo (1966; Seix Barral, 1972), Corriente alterna (1967), Marcel Duchamp o el castillo de la pureza (1968) y su reedición ampliada Apariencia desnuda (1973), Conjunciones y disyunciones (1969; Seix Barral, 1991), Postdata (1970), El signo y el garabato (1973; Seix Barral, 1991), Los hijos del limo (Seix Barral, 1974 y 1987), El ogro filantrópico (Seix Barral, 1979), In/mediaciones (Seix Barral, 1979), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe (Seix Barral, 1982), Tiempo nublado (Seix Barral, 1983 y 1986), Sombras de obras (Seix Barral, 1983), Hombres en su siglo (Seix Barral, 1984), Pequeña crónica de grandes días.