Selected Poems

by Octavio Paz

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811208990
• ISBN13: 9780811208994
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"