A draft of shadows, and other poems

Format:

Book

Title:

A draft of shadows, and other poems

Author:

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998, author.

ISBN:

9780811207379

9780811207386

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

186 pages ; 21 cm

Series title(s):

New Directions book.

General Note:

English and Spanish.

Contents:

from Ladera Este = East Slope -- El otro = The other -- Efectos del bautismo = The effects of baptism -- Golden Lotuses (3) = Golden lotuses (3) -- Madrugada al raso = Daybreak -- Himachal Pradesh (I) = Himachal Pradesh (I) -- La exclamacion = Exclamation -- Projimo lijano = Distant neighbor -- Escritura = Writing -- Concorde = Concord -- Soltura = Release -- Concierto en el jardin = Concert in the garden -- Sunyata = Sunyata -- Un anochecer = Nightfall -- En los jardines de los Lodi = In the Lodi gardens -- Madrigal = Madrigal -- La llave de agua = The key of water -- Eje = Axis -- Con los ojos cerrados = With eyes closed -- Domingo en la isla de Elefanta = Sunday on the island of Elephanta -- Cuento de dos jardines = A tale of two gardens -- from Vuelta = Return -- El fuego de cada dia = The everyday fire -- Por la calle de Galeana = Along Galeana Street -- La arboleda = The grove -- Paisaje inmemorial = Immemorial landscape -- Vuelta = Return -- Piel/sonido del mundo = "The skin of the world, the sound of the world" -- A la mitad de esta frase ... = In the middle of this phrase ... -- Piedra blanca y negra = Black and white stone -- Objetos y aparicones = Objects & apparitions -- Trowbridge Street = Trowbridge Street -- Petrificada petrificante = The petrifying petrified -- Nocturno de San Ildefonso = San Ildefonso nocturne -- New And Uncollected Poems -- Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo = Homage to Claudius Ptolemy -- Estrellas y grillo = Stars and cricket -- Primero de enero = January First -- En defensa de Pirron = In defense of Pyrrho -- La vista, el tacto = Sight, touch -- Entre irse y quedarse = Between leaving and staying -- Un despertar = Waking -- Pequena variacion = Small variation -- Viento, agua, piedra = Wind and water and stone -- La llama, el habla = Flame, speech -- Ejercicio preparatorio = Preparatory exercise -- Epitafio sobre ninguna piedra = Epitaph for no stone -- Este lado = This side.

Summary:

A collection of poems by Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz, presented in Spanish and in English.

Personal Subject:

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998-Translations into English.

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998

Subject(s):

Mexican poetry -- 20th century.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Translations

Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.

Added Author:

Weinberger, Eliot

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979,

Strand, Mark, 1934-2014,

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	861 Paz 1979	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

This book is a bilingual collection of Paz's poems. Throughout this book the poet's abiding concern for language as a living force is revealed.

Author Notes

Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico on March 31, 1914. In 1938, he became one of the founders of the journal, Taller. In 1943, he travelled to the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship where he became immersed in Anglo-American Modernist poetry. He entered the Mexican diplomatic service in 1945 and was sent to France then India. In 1968, he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the government's suppression of the student demonstrations during the Olympic Games in Mexico.

He was a poet and an essayist. His works include The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Grammarian Monkey, East Slope, and The Other Mexico. He received numerous awards including the Cervantes award in 1981, the American Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He also worked as an editor and publisher. He founded two magazines dedicated to the arts and politics: Plural and Vuelta. He died of cancer on April 19, 1998.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Paz may be America's favorite Spanish-language poet; and there are reasons. His work is almost bone clean. The full text of ""In the Lodi Gardens"" goes: ""The black, pensive, dense/ Domes of the mausoleums/ Suddenly shot birds/ Into the unanimous blue."" Living in India as the Mexican Ambassador, Paz would appear to have an inside knowledge about not one but two cultural mysteries. The poems he makes from these are amulets, sort of, incised and polished: ""I am surrounded by city/ I lack air/ lack body/ lack/ the stone that is pillow and slab/ grass that is cloud and water."" His responses to other arts--poems cognate to the work of Robert Motherwell and Joseph Cornell--bespeak an international modernity. Yet hardly any of his poetry, intellectually deft as it may be (""What remains is/ time as portioned body: language""), upsets or challenges the reader. Rage, in the poem ""The petrifying petrified,"" (probably impossible to translate, though Weinberger gives it a creditable go), leads to tonguetieing: ""tensebrow/ greendry bloodsnot/ Rage nailed in a word/ ragerazor gazeblade/ on a land of tines and spines."" Paz is better when he adds-on than when he distills (see the title poem, an autobiographical/mystical rapture), but his distillation is his soul's natural process. We want Paz to be a major poet, and seem to have succeeded in inflating his reputation. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.