Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost living poet.
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem,
Sunstone (
Piedra de Sol)--here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger--made its appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of
Days and Occasions (
Días Hábiles),
Homage and Desecrations (
Homenaje y Profanaciones),
Salamander (
Salamandra),
Solo for Two Voices (
Solo a Dos Voces),
East Slope (
Ladera Este),
Toward the Beginning (
Hacza el Comienzo),
Blanco,
Topoems (
Topoemas),
Return (
Vuelta),
A Draft of Shadows (
Pasado en Claro),
Airborn (
Hijos del Aire), and Paz's most recent collection,
A Tree Within (
Árbol Adentro).
With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson.