Octavio Paz's Books

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

By: Octavio Paz

Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

692

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811211738

ISBN 13

9780811211734

Early Poems, 1935-1955

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The growth of the work of Octavio Paz," writes Muriel Rukeyser in her preface to this bilingual selection of the Mexican poet's Early Poems, "has made clear to an audience in many languages what was evident from the beginning ... he is a great poet, a world-poet whom we need. The poems here speak--as does all his work since--deeply, erotically, with grave and passionate involvement." In this, a much revised edition of the earlier Selected Poems (Indiana University Press, 1963), Miss Rukeyser has joined to her own translations those of Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, and William Carlos Williams, while many of the readings embody Paz's own revisions of the original texts. The poems were chosen from eight separate collections, among them Condición de nube ("Phase of Cloud"), Semillas para un himno ("Seeds for a Psalm"), Piedras sueltas ("Riprap"), and Estación violenta ("Violent Season").

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811204782

ISBN 13

9780811204781

The Poems of Octavio Paz

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Poems of Octavio Paz

By: Octavio Paz

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 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.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

647

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

081122757X

ISBN 13

9780811227575

Figures and Figurations

By: Octavio Paz,Marie José Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Figures and Figurations

By: Octavio Paz,Marie José Paz

A beautiful gift edition of Figures & Figurations: the collaboration between the Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie José Paz.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811217590

ISBN 13

9780811217590

On Poets and Others

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On Poets and Others

By: Octavio Paz

The Nobel Prize–winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux. Paz writes, “I believe that a writer’s attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression.” When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Skyhorse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628723920

ISBN 13

9781628723922

Aguila O Sol?

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aguila O Sol?

By: Octavio Paz

A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

136

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811206238

ISBN 13

9780811206235

Configurations

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Configurations

By: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate, has won distinction as an anthropologist, philosopher and critic of art and literature. But it is as a poet that he is most celebrated. Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, and Muriel Rukeyser.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811201503

ISBN 13

9780811201506

Piedra de Sol

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Piedra de Sol

By: Octavio Paz

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem "Sunstone" is now a handsome illustrated paperbook. Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure. Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811211959

ISBN 13

9780811211956

The Monkey Grammarian

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Monkey Grammarian

By: Octavio Paz

Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an “intellectual literary one-man band” by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance and in world literature. In this entrancing work, part prose-poem and part rumination on the origins of language and the antic, erotic, sacred nature of poetry, Paz takes inspiration from Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology. On a journey to the temple city of Galta in India—which Paz finds partially ruined in a leaf-filled countryside surrounded by forbidding hills—Hanuman’s mythical encounters serve as the springboard for the poet’s speculations on all manners of things, from movement and fixity to meaning and identity, the reality behind language, and the nature of nature. Images of the holy city, complete with the marauding monkeys for which it is known, constantly obtrude on his musings. Perhaps the most poetic of Paz’s prose works, The Monkey Grammarian is visual: every page is rich in images, of palaces and temples, pilgrims and sadhus, and the monkey god himself. Paz’s probing, crystalline prose makes this an unforgettable voyage of the mind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628727756

ISBN 13

9781628727753

Alternating Current

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alternating Current

By: Octavio Paz

In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, André Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. A scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as “a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold” (Christian Science Monitor).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Skyhorse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628721685

ISBN 13

9781628721683

Conjunctions and Disjunctions

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Conjunctions and Disjunctions

By: Octavio Paz

Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a "history of man". Unlike countless other histories that simply chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work explores the human heart, the meaning of human nature, and the duality that exists within all beings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628721715

ISBN 13

9781628721713

One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds

Reflections on Contemporary History

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds

Reflections on Contemporary History

By: Octavio Paz

Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Ecco

Published Date

ISBN 10

0156687461

ISBN 13

9780156687461

Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith

By: Octavio Paz

A life of the seventeenth-century poet, intellectual, and feminist who became a nun and eventually gave up secular learning, places her in her times and in Spanish intellectual tradition, and examines the contradictions in her personality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

564

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674821068

ISBN 13

9780674821064

El Labertino de la Soledad by Octavio Paz

By: Anthony Stanton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

El Labertino de la Soledad by Octavio Paz

By: Anthony Stanton

This book, Paz’s first book-length essay, is the most famous of his works and a modern classic. Published in Spanish in 1950, it is undoubtedly the most influential work that exists on problems of Mexican cultural identity. In this critical edition, Stanton introduces the work, explores the historical circumstances in which it was written, its textual genesis, sequels and its influence. He analyzes key elements of the essay, such as the structure, methodology, use of Freud, Jung, Marx, Nietzsche and the way it relates culture to history. This book contains questions and themes for discussion and a select bibliography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0719048745

ISBN 13

9780719048746

The Labyrinth of Solitude

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Labyrinth of Solitude

By: Octavio Paz

As well as the nine essays on his country's psyche and history that make up The Labyrinth of Solitude, this highly acclaimed volume also includes The Other Mexico, Paz's heartfelt response to the government massacre of over three hundred students in Mexico City in 1968, and Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, in which he discusses his famous work with Claude Fell. The two final essays contain further reflections on the Mexican government.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

398

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0141188472

ISBN 13

9780141188478

A Tale of Two Gardens

Poems from India, 1952-1995

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Tale of Two Gardens

Poems from India, 1952-1995

By: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

124

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811213498

ISBN 13

9780811213493

Five Works by Octavio Paz

Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others / Alternating Current

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Five Works by Octavio Paz

Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others / Alternating Current

By: Octavio Paz

One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century has some of his finest art, culture and literary criticism collected here for the first time. A Nobel laureate, Octavio Paz’s lucid poetry has been translated by such luminaries as Mark Strand, Elizabeth Bishop, and Samuel Beckett, while his work as a diplomat earned him the German Peace Prize late in life. His extraordinary essays, however, have rarely been gathered in one place. In Conjunctions and Disjunctions (2005), he explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world. In Marcel Duchamp (2005), he “conveys his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning us with jest and quiet scandals of the menacing encroachment of criticism, science and even art” (New York Times Book Review). In Alternating Current (2005), Paz, with poetic prose and intellectual vigor, displays his “determination to bring the world to Mexico and perhaps even Mexico to the world” (New York Times Book Review). On Poets and Others (2005) is a true artist’s brilliant criticism on sixteen fellow poets. The Monkey Grammarian (1990) is a dazzling exploration of time and reality, ?xity and decay, and the origin of language. This beautifully bound collector’s edition is an essential collection for both the classroom and the personal library.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

728

Publisher

Arcade

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611453119

ISBN 13

9781611453119

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

By: Octavio Paz

Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

692

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811211738

ISBN 13

9780811211734

The Bow and the Lyre

The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Bow and the Lyre

The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

By: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292753462

ISBN 13

9780292753464

Marcel Duchamp

Appearance Stripped Bare

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Marcel Duchamp

Appearance Stripped Bare

By: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz conveying “his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning us with jest and quiet scandals of the menacing encroachment of criticism, science and even art.” —New York Times Book Review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Skyhorse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628722266

ISBN 13

9781628722260

A Tree Within

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Tree Within

By: Octavio Paz

A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811210715

ISBN 13

9780811210713

On Poets and Others

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On Poets and Others

By: Octavio Paz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Skyhorse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628723920

ISBN 13

9781628723922

Piedra de Sol

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Piedra de Sol

By: Octavio Paz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811211959

ISBN 13

9780811211956

The Siren and the Seashell

And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Siren and the Seashell

And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

By: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Alfonso Reyes. Then there are essays on Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, and Jorge Guillén. Finally, there are Paz’s reflections on the poetry of solitude and communion and the literature of Latin America. Each essay is more than Paz’s impressions of one person or issue; each is the occasion for a wider discussion of cultural, historical, psychological, and philosophical themes. The essays were selected from Paz’s writing between 1942 and 1965 and provide an overview of the development of his thinking and an exploration of the ideas central in his works.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Univ of TX + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292753470

ISBN 13

9780292753471

Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith

By: Octavio Paz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith

By: Octavio Paz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

564

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674821068

ISBN 13

9780674821064

Vegetation of the Canary Islands

By: Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar,Octavio Rodríguez Delgado

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Vegetation of the Canary Islands

By: Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar,Octavio Rodríguez Delgado

The volcanic and oceanic nature of the Canary Islands, its rich plant biodiversity and high rate of endemism, as well as the relict character of some of its plant communities make it a territory of great biological interest. The main geographic, climatic, bioclimatic, biogeographic and floristic features of the Islands are shown and related to the distributional pattern of potential communities along an altitudinal gradient. Current vegetation units and their ecology are described and illustrated with numerous pictures. Potential vegetation units are summarized and comprehensive maps of the potential natural vegetation for each island are given. Human impact on the natural landscape, the occurrence of invasive plants, and the probable impact of climate change on the flora and vegetation are discussed. The conservation status of flora and vegetation are assessed. Four appendixes include a syntaxonomical scheme, a brief history of botanical studies and explorations in the Islands, ethnobotanical notes, and a list of selected literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

437

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319772554

ISBN 13

9783319772554

Book's by Octavio Paz

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email