Configurations : Poetry

Octavio Paz

ISBN 10: 0811201503 / ISBN 13: 9780811201506

Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation Jan 1971, 1971

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Neuware - 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. Codice articolo 9780811201506

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Titolo: Configurations : Poetry

Casa editrice: New Directions Publishing Corporation Jan 1971

Data di pubblicazione: 1971

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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

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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. 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.