Octavio Paz, Author, Eliot Weinberger, Editor, Elizabeth Bishop, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $37.5 (669p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1037-9
Paz, a cosmopolitan poet, is also intensely Mexican. In his lineswhether long and flowing or spare and chiseledsorrow and solitude are measured against the strength of his people and refracted through the prism of his gentle romanticism (""The world
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Octavio Paz, Author, Paz, Author, Helen R. Lane, Translator Mariner Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-622586-1
This collection of essays by a 1990 Nobelist explores how cultures collide or converge. According to PW, the U.S. ``ethic of hygiene,'' Marxism-as-religion in Latin America and the influence of Japanese culture on Hispano-American writing are among...
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Octavio Paz, Author, Paz, Author, Eliot Weinberger, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-100222-1
Nobel laureate Paz was first posted to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi in 1951, returning in 1962 for six years as ambassador. Now, more than 30 years later, he has written four masterful essays that explore both his own feelings about India and...
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Octavio Paz, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Mariner Books $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-600365-0
Nobel laureate Paz presents a humanist examination of the roles played by love and eros in modern life and society. (June)
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Octavio Paz, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-15-129063-5
In one of the essays in this wide-ranging collection, Mexican critic and poet Paz attempts to view the murals of Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco while deliberately setting aside the ideologies of nationalism and Marxism which...
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Octavio Paz, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-100103-3
In a gem of a book, Mexican poet, critic and essayist Paz explores the boundaries between love, sex and eros. He defines eroticism as sexuality transfigured by the imagination, and romantic love as a desire for completeness manifested as a...
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Octavio Paz, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9
Paz (1914–1998), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990, dominated Mexican letters during the last decades of his life; his influence was global, and his powers of invention beyond dispute. This ambitious bilingual selection (far from complete, despite the
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Octavio Paz, Author, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator Belknap Press $57 (564p) ISBN 978-0-674-82105-7
An illegitimate child, a Catholic nun, an outspoken defender of women's rights, a vivacious beauty who forsook the splendor of Mexico City's viceregal palace for a conventBaroque poet Juana Ramirez (1648-1694), also known as Sor (Sister) Juana Ines...
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Octavio Paz, Author, Marie Jose Paz, Joint Author, Eliot Weinberger, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions $22.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1524-4
Centered on 12 lovely collaborations between 1990 Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and his wife of 30 years, this book presents poems he wrote to accompany her full-color, neo-surrealist collages ("Calm," "Cloud Box," "I
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Octavio Paz, Author, Jason Wilson, Translator, Charles Tomlinson, Preface by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-100562-8
""I am not writing my memoirs,"" claims Nobel laureate Paz in this posthumously published autobiographical essay, though in charting the development of his political convictions, the Mexican poet and writer furnishes readers with a rich history of...
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Octavio Paz, Author, Michael Schmidt, Translator Seaver Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0003-0
In these short, polemical, engaged essays, the noted Mexican critic and poet locks horns with writers, past and present. He calls Dostoyevski ""our great contemporary,'' a novelist who forces us to see our divided selves, our nihilism. Whitman, the...
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John Breadsley, Author, John Beardsley, Author, Octavio Paz, Author Abbeville Press $55 (260p) ISBN 978-0-89659-688-7
Wrestling openly with problems of identity and alienation, Hispanic artists in the United States bring virtuoso skill, exuberant energy, social awareness and subversive humor to their work. Painters and sculptors who came here from Mexico, Cuba,...
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Catherine Cowan, Author, Octavio Paz, Author, Mark Buehner, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12660-5
A boy creates his own endless summer when he brings home a wave from the family's beach vacation in this splashy fantasy based on a story by Nobel laureate Paz. The wave adores her new surroundings, spraying foam as she rushes through the household,
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