Configurations (Paperback)

Octavio Paz

ISBN 10: 0811201503 / ISBN 13: 9780811201506

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1971

Beschreibung

Paperback. 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. Paz's poems, although rooted in the mythology of South America and his native Mexico, nevertheless have an international background, transfiguring the images of the contemporary world. Powerful, angry, erotic, they voice the desires and rage of a generation. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780811201506

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Configurations (Paperback)
• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1971
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0811201503
• ISBN-13: 9780811201506
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.