The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987: Bilingual Edition

This excellent edition of the collection of poetry by Paz presents the English translations facing the Spanish originals.
Paz who served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan and who also lived in France and was influenced by the surrealistic wave, does not cease to surprise the reader with the elegant places, new ideas and images that he takes up.
An enchanting read!
Joyce Akesson, author of Love's Thrilling Dimensions and the The Invitation

If you enjoy the poetry of Octavio Paz (born 1914- died 1998), this collection is a wonderful addition to your library. Paz wrote literature and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990 and he also wrote poetry. Poems are presented in both Spanish and English.

Paz is a lyrical writer and his imagery takes you inside the poem and inside yourself. Take "Between Going and Staying" and the first stanza:

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

and the last stanza:

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.

You can feel the stillness, feel the immersion, feel the pause.

If you are new to Paz and his poetry he is a wonderful poet like the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca--both are incomparable in weaving their words into poetic moments.

This excellent edition of the collection of poetry by Paz presents the English translations facing the Spanish originals.
Paz who served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan and who also lived in France and was influenced by the surrealistic wave, does not cease to surprise the reader with the elegant places, new ideas and images that he takes up.
An enchanting read!

This is an excellent edition of the collected poems of Octavio Paz, with English translations facing the Spanish originals. I purchased this as a gift for my Spanish teacher and she was delighted! My favorites are his poems written when he served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan. His sensitive mind absorbed the nuances of place and religion, which are recreated for us in the poems. His efforts at haiku en espagnol are enlightening, pun intended.

I bought this book after reading an excerpt of one of Paz's poems at a camp. I didn't know what poem it was from, so I bought the book and scoured it until I found the poem. It was Brotherhood. The poetry is beautiful and moving. It is the type of poetry you can read and enjoy no matter if you understand what it is saying, the writing is that beautiful