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The Poems of Octavio Paz

by Octavio Paz

A bilingual view across Paz’s poetic career

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Awards & Recognition

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    Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize laureate

    Described as a Nobel Prize laureate

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A bilingual view across Paz’s poetic career

This retrospective gathers Octavio Paz’s poetry from his first published poem, written at seventeen, through his final poem. The bilingual edition brings together newly translated work, translations informed by Paz’s final revisions, and versions by several other poets. Its supporting material adds context without shifting the focus from the poems: Eliot Weinberger contributes a capsule biography, while notes draw on Paz’s own comments in interviews. The collection’s span makes it possible to encounter work from across the poet’s career in one volume, alongside multiple approaches to bringing it into English.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a broad selection of Octavio Paz’s poetry across his career
  • Bilingual readers interested in comparing Spanish poems with English translations
  • Readers interested in translation, with biographical and interview-based notes

Themes

Poetry across a writing careerBilingual presentation and translationPoet biography and commentary

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Book overview

The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's 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 Paz's 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 Weinberger's capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz's own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.
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