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.

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

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

New York: New Directions

United States, United States of America

New York, New York State, 1984

Fifth printing, New York, 1984

First Edition, PS, 1984

1, 1984

topic: Paz, Octavio, 1914

Type: 其他外文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p13) INTRODUCTION
2. (p17) THE BIRD
3. (p17) TWO BODIES
4. (p18) POET'S EPITAPH
5. (p18) THE STREET
6. (p19) (UNTITLED)
7. (p19) FABLE
8. (p20) NATIVE STONE
9. (p21) OBJECT LESSON
10. (p23) IN UXMAL
11. (p24) RIPRAP
12. (p26) FROM THE POET'S WORKS
13. (p28) THE BLUE BOUQUET
14. (p30) HURRY
15. (p32) PLAIN
16. (p32) CAPITAL
17. (p33) OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY
18. (p35) A POET
19. (p35) HUASTEC LADY
20. (p36) TOWARD THE POEM
21. (p38) HYMN AMONG THE RUINS
22. (p40) IS THERE NO WAY OUT?
23. (p43) THE RIVER
24. (p45) SUN STONE
25. (p62) DAWN
26. (p62) HERE
27. (p62) LANDSCAPE
28. (p63) CERTAINTY
29. (p64) TOUCH
30. (p64) DURATION
31. (p65) LAST DAWN
32. (p66) SALAMANDER
33. (p71) HAPPINESS IN HERAT FOR CARLOS PELLICER
34. (p73) APPARITION
35. (p73) IN THE LODI GARDENS FOR CLAUDE ESTEBAN
36. (p74) THE OTHER
37. (p74) VRINDABAN
38. (p79) VILLAGE
39. (p79) DAYBREAK
40. (p80) NIGHTFALL
41. (p80) ON READING JOHN CAGE
42. (p83) WRITING
43. (p84) CONCORD FOR CARLOS FUENTES
44. (p84) EXCLAMATION
45. (p85) WIND FROM ALL COMPASS POINTS
46. (p90) MADRIGAL
47. (p91) WITH EYES CLOSED
48. (p91) TRANSIT
49. (p92) MAITHUNA
50. (p96) THE KEY OF WATER
51. (p96) SUNDAY ON THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTA
52. (p98) BLANCO
53. (p108) THE GROVE
54. (p109) IMMEMORIAL LANDSCAPE FOR JOSé DE LA COLINA
55. (p111) TROWBRIDGE STREET
56. (p113) OBJECTS & APPARITIONS FOR JOSEPH CORNELL
57. (p115) RETURN FOR JOSé ALVARADO
58. (p119) IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PHRASE...
59. (p123) THE PETRIFYING PETRIFIED
60. (p128) SAN ILDEFONSO NOCTURNE
61. (p138) A DRAFT OF SHADOWS
62. (p154) FLAME, SPEECH
63. (p155) SIGHT, TOUCH FOR BAL THUS
64. (p156) HOMAGE TO CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (PALATINE ANTHOLOGY 9.577)
65. (p157) STARS AND CRICKET
66. (p157) WIND AND WATER AND STONE FOR ROGER CAILLOIS
67. (p158) EPITAPH FOR NO STONE
68. (p158) THIS SIDE FOR DONALD SUTHERLAND
69. (p159) AUTHOR'S NOTES [EDITORS NOTES IN BRACKETS]

theme: Paz, Octavio, 1914

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.

Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

2023-06-28