Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 to 1968; and to various universities in the United States throughout the 1970s. A great synthesizer, the rich diversity of Paz's thought is shown here in all its astonishing complexity. Among the sixty-seven selections in this volume, a gathering in English of his most essential poems drawn from nearly fifty years' work, are Muriel Rukeyser's now classic version of "Sun Stone" and new translations by editor Weinberger of Blanco" and "Maithuna." And since for Paz, forever in motion, there can be no such thing as a "definitive text," all the poems have been revised to conform to the poet's most recent changes in the original Spanish. Besides those by Rukeyser and Weinberger, the translations in the Selected Poems are by G. Aroul, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos Williams, and Monique Fong Wust.

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Octavio Paz; edited by Eliot Weinberger; translations from the Spanish by G. Aroul ... [et al.]

Octavio Paz; Eliot Weinberger; Guy Aroul; New Directions Publishing

United States, United States of America

New Directions book, New York, 1984

New York, New York State, 1984

Fifth printing, New York, 1984

First Edition, PS, 1984

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Cover 1
Title Page 6
Copyright 7
CONTENTS 8
Introduction by Eliot Weinberger 12
From: Bajo tu clara sombra / Under Your Clear Shadow (1935-1944) 16
The Bird 16
Two Bodies 16
Poet's Epitaph 17
From: Calamidades y Milagros / Calamities and Miracles (1937-1947) 17
The Street 17
From: Semillas para un himno / Seeds for a Psalm (1943-1955) 18
The hand of day opens 18
Fable 18
Native Stone 19
Object Lesson 20
In Uxmal 22
Riprap 23
From: Aguila o sol? / Eagle or Sun? (1949-1950) 25
From: The Poet's Works 25
The Blue Bouquet 27
Hurry 29
Plain 31
Capital 31
Obsidian Butterfly 32
A Poet 34
Huastec Lady 34
Toward the Poem 35
From: La estación violenta / The Violent Season (1948-1957) 37
Hymn Among the Ruins 37
Is There No Way Out? 39
The River 42
Sun Stone 44
From: Dias habiles / Lawful Days (1958-1961) 61
Dawn 61
Here 61
Landscape 61
Certainty 62
From: Salamandra / Salamander (1958-1961) 63
Touch 63
Duration 63
Last Dawn 64
Salamander 65
From: Ladera Este / East Slope (1962-1968) 70
Happiness in Herat 70
Apparition 72
In the Lodi Gardens 72
The Other 73
Vrindaban 73
Village 78
Daybreak 78
Nightfall 79
On Reading John Cage 79
Writing 82
Concord 83
Exclamation 83
From: Hacia el comienzo / Toward the Beginning (1964-1968) 84
Wind From All Compass Points 84
Madrigal 89
With Eyes Closed 90
Transit 90
Maithuna 91
The Key of Water 95
Sunday on the Island of Elephanta 95
Blanco (1966) 97
Blanco 97
From: Vuelta / Return (1969-1975) 107
The Grove 107
Immemorial Landscape 108
Trowbridge Street 110
Objects & Apparitions 112
Return 114
In the Middle of This Phrase . . . 118
The Petrifying Petrified 122
San Ildefonso Nocturne 127
Pasado en claro / A Draft of Shadows (1974) 137
A Draft of Shadows 137
Uncollected Poems (1976-1980) 153
Flame, Speech 153
Sight, Touch 154
Homage to Claudius Ptolemy 155
Stars and Cricket 156
Wind and Water and Stone 156
Epitaph for No Stone 157
This Side 157
Author's Notes 158
Poetry,Classics

The bird -- Two bodies -- Poet's epitaph -- The street -- The hand of day opens -- Fable -- Native stone -- Object lesson -- In Uxmal -- Riprap -- The poet's works III, IV, VII, XI, XII, The blue bouquet -- Hurry -- Plain -- Capital -- Obsidian butterfly -- A poet -- Huastec lady -- Toward the poem -- Hymn among the ruins -- Is there no way out? The river -- Sun stone -- Dawn -- Here -- Landscape -- Certainty -- Touch -- Duration -- Last dawn -- Salamander -- Happiness in Herat -- Apparition -- In the Lodi gardens -- The other -- Vrindaban -- Village -- Daybreak -- Nightfall -- On reading John Cage -- Writing -- Concord -- Exclamation -- Wind from all compass points -- Madrigal -- With eyes closed -- Transit -- Maithuna -- The key of water -- Sunday on the island of Elephanta -- Blanco -- The grove -- Immemorial landscape -- Trowbridge street -- Objects and apparitions -- Return -- In the middle of this phrase -- The petrifying petrified -- San Ildefonso nocturne -- A draft of shadows -- Flame, speech -- Sight, touch -- Homage to Claudius Ptolemy -- Stars and cricket -- Wind and water and stone -- Epitaph for no stone -- This side.

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