Poems deal with death, nature, the past, art, perception, love, travel, communication, and truth

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 he[...]

Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of[...]

A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction[...]

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it "modern," and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.
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One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as 'La Ruptura'. This fascinating book, which examines the earliest period of Soriano's career,[...]

If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz's famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The[...]

Bilingual text presents the most outstanding lyrical works of the Mexican poet, including Sun Stone and Blanco[...]

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[...]

La llama doble es un ensayo unitario que por su importancia en el con¬junto de la obra de Octavio Paz resulta comparable a titulos tan de¬cisivos como El arco y la lira o El laberinto de la soledad. Aun cuando la redaccion material del libro se produjo entre marzo y abril de 1993, el proposito de [...]